Jersey City

American  

noun

1. a seaport in NE New Jersey, opposite New York City.

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Jersey City British  

noun

1. an industrial city in NE New Jersey, opposite Manhattan on a peninsula between the Hudson and Hackensack Rivers: part of the Port of New York; site of one of the greatest railway terminals in the world. Pop: 239 097 (2003 est)

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Jersey City Cultural  

1. City in northeastern New Jersey, opposite lower Manhattan.

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Port of entry; great shipping and manufacturing center.

Example Sentences

Military training prepared him for the hard-nosed politics of running for city council in Jersey City, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Once a week, Leah began traveling to Jersey City to hold regular séances at various homes for Willets’s circle.

From Literature

A defining event for the modern club, however, was its “forbidden gala” in 2020, which took place across the Hudson River in Jersey City.

From Salon

Danny described what he'd remembered — how, when I was three, my mother and I had decamped from our home in Jersey City to his in a quaint Boston suburb.

From Salon

His Senate office released a statement — with a Jersey City, New Jersey, dateline — while he was in U.S.

From Seattle Times