NEW YORK Definition & Meaning

New York

noun

Also called New York State. a state in the northeastern United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). : Albany. : NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
Also called New York City. a seaport in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson: comprising the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island.
Greater New York, New York City, the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, and Westchester in New York, and the counties of Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Morris, Passaic, Somerset, and Union in New Jersey: the metropolitan area as defined by the U.S. census.

New York

noun

Also calledNew York City a city in SE New York State, at the mouth of the Hudson River: the largest city and chief port of the US; settled by the Dutch as New Amsterdam in 1624 and captured by the British in 1664, when it was named New York; consists of five boroughs (Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, which was called Richmond until 1975) and many smaller islands, with its commercial and financial centre in Manhattan; the country's leading commercial and industrial city. Pop: 8 085 742 (2003 est) AbbreviationN.Y.C.NYC
a state of the northeastern US: consists chiefly of a plateau with the Finger Lakes in the centre, the Adirondack Mountains in the northeast, the Catskill Mountains in the southeast, and Niagara Falls in the west. Capital: Albany. Pop: 19 190 115 (2003 est). Area: 123 882 sq km (47 831 sq miles) AbbreviationN.Y.with zip codeNY

New York

State in the northeastern United States bordered by Lake Erie , Lake Ontario , and Ontario , Canada to the north and west; Vermont , Massachusetts , Connecticut , and the Atlantic Ocean to the east; and New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south. Its capital is Albany , and its largest city is New York City .

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Notes

One of the thirteen colonies .

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Other �y��vlog Forms

New Yorker noun

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Asked about the chances of a U.S. and global recession hitting this year, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, said, “I’m very worried about it.”

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Currently, he is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York.

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"One to One" begins some 18 months before the concerts as John and Yoko settle in New York City.

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Leslie gives a complete portrait of this remarkably fecund and frequently tortured creative partnership, which began in Liverpool in 1957 and ended in New York City on Dec. 8, 1980, with Lennon’s murder.

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Kilmer was 65 when he died Tuesday after what his daughter Mercedes told the New York Times was a bout of pneumonia.

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