Atlantic City

noun

1. a city in SE New Jersey: seashore resort.

Atlantic City

noun

1. a resort in SE New Jersey on Absecon Beach, an island on the Atlantic coast. Pop: 40 385 (2003 est)

Atlantic City

1. City in southeastern New Jersey .

Notes

The street names of Atlantic City were used in the game Monopoly .

A seaside resort and convention center. Gambling, which has been legal there since the 1970s, draws many visitors. The Boardwalk, which was first built in the late nineteenth century, is lined with shops and hotels.

Example Sentences

The Tropicana Hotel is offering a $44 room rate on Thursday nights for Carmine’s patrons in Atlantic City.

From Fortune

“It makes no sense that indoor dining is not safe in New York City, but it is safe in Long Island, in Albany, in Westchester,” said Bank, who is promoting a deal the Tropicana is offering to get New Yorkers to drive down to Atlantic City.

From Fortune

Online gaming has been legal in New Jersey, for example, since 2013, but Atlantic City casino revenues have risen in four of the past five years.

From Fortune

That equals or surpasses what Atlantic City used to make in an entire year from casino gambling before sports betting was legalized.

From Fortune

Some of the very Atlantic City businessmen who supported the event at first, as a way to raise the City’s tourist profile, now saw it as hurting the reputation that it had worked to expand.

From Time

Much like the Taj Mahal, Revel opened in classically gaudy Atlantic City style in April 2012—with a sunrise Champagne toast.

From The Daily Beast

Notoriously, Atlantic City did not get its first supermarket until 1996.

From The Daily Beast

I am watching the sunrise from the 39th floor of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

From The Daily Beast

Christie has a lot riding on fulfilling his promise of shepherding Atlantic City into a third boom era.

From The Daily Beast

As the rest of the country changed, Atlantic City seemed to be stuck in the past, and tourism eventually died off.

From The Daily Beast

I've heard my father say that at the big hotels at Atlantic City and other places they have a band play while the people dine.

From Project Gutenberg

He felt like an Atlantic City Negro with a wheel chair hired for the day by a tired business man.

From Project Gutenberg

When we held the Atlantic City convention a resolution was passed at that meeting requesting the same thing.

From Project Gutenberg

If you return to Atlantic City people will be afraid to make any ascensions with you.

From Project Gutenberg

This week we have divided the trip from Philadelphia to Atlantic City into two parts, of thirty-one and thirty-five miles each.

From Project Gutenberg