TIMES SQUARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Times Square mean? 

• TIMES SQUARE (noun)
  The noun TIMES SQUARE has 1 sense:

1. the area of Manhattan around the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue; heart of the New York theater district; site of annual celebration of New Year's

  Familiarity information: TIMES SQUARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIMES SQUARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The area of Manhattan around the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue; heart of the New York theater district; site of annual celebration of New Year's

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city district (a district of a town or city)

Holonyms ("Times Square" is a part of...):

Manhattan (one of the five boroughs of New York City)

 Context examples 

Of theatrical people there were Gus Waize and Horace O'Donavan and Lester Meyer and George Duckweed and Francis Bull. Also from New York were the Chromes and the Backhyssons and the Dennickers and Russel Betty and the Corrigans and the Kellehers and the Dewars and the Scullys and S. W. Belcher and the Smirkes and the young Quinns, divorced now, and Henry L. Palmetto who killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train in Times Square.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)