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New Jersey

noun

  1. a state in the eastern United States, on the Atlantic coast. 7,836 square miles (20,295 square kilometers). : Trenton. : NJ (for use with zip code), N.J.


New Jersey

noun

  1. a state of the eastern US, on the Atlantic and Delaware Bay: mostly low-lying, with a heavy industrial area in the northeast and many coastal resorts. Capital: Trenton. Pop: 8 638 396 (2003 est). Area: 19 479 sq km (7521 sq miles) AbbreviationN.J.with zip codeNJ


New Jersey

  1. State in the northeastern United States, bordered by New York to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Delaware Bay to the south and west, and Pennsylvania to the west. Its capital is Trenton, and its largest city is Newark .


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Notes

One of the thirteen colonies .

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Other Words From

  • New Jersey·ite [jur, -zee-ahyt], New Jersey·an noun

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Example Sentences

Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice turned herself in to serve a 15-month sentence for bankruptcy fraud.

“These towns that are doing it just continue to make New Jersey less and less competitive,” Christie said.

John B. Stetson was born in 1830 in New Jersey, the son of a hat maker.

She said she was originally from New Jersey but now resides in Brooklyn.

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

The coast of New Jersey is now sinking at the rate of about two feet in a hundred years.

Their donations amounted to 2030 shirts, and they obtained 77 shirts and 380 pairs of stockings from New Jersey.

He retreated hastily through New Jersey with a force daily diminished by desertion.

Loyalty seems to have been the prevalent feeling of New Jersey on the first passing of the King's troops through it.

New Jersey—as they were now called—was under the same rule as New York—until 1738, when it became a separate colony.

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