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New York
/(ˌ)n(j)u ˈjɔɹk/
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What does New York mean?
proper noun
- The largest city in the state of New York, and the largest city in the United States, a metropolis extending into neighboring New Jersey in addition to Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
- A state of the United States.
- New York County, a county of New York, coterminous with the Borough of Manhattan.
More meanings (6)
proper noun
- A settlement in Toretsk urban hromada, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine (co-ordinates: 48°19′55″N 37°50′11″E).
- A village in Wildmore parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire (OS grid ref TF2455).
- A settlement in Hartwith cum Winsley parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Harrogate borough (OS grid ref SE1962).
- A suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK4292).
- A suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear (OS grid ref NZ3270).
- (historical) A former colony of England, from 1664 to 1707, and of Great Britain, from 1707 to 1776, which became the US state of the same name.
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IPA pronunciation
/(ˌ)n(j)u ˈjɔɹk/
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See this word in context.
He saw with astonishment, as he put another lump of sugar into his cup, that this letter bore a New York postmark.
So she sent to one of those New York homes for poor girls all the clothes she could spare—and more, most likely.
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The delay of a single day would make him lose the steamer at New York, and his bet would be certainly lost.
Four of them posted up from New York the morning after the fire, and all of the local people have been wonderful.
She had started for New York, but the old gatekeeper at the station was mean and she could not slip by him.