New York

noun

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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

1. 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
2. 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

1. 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 .

Notes

One of the thirteen colonies .

Other Words From

• New Yorker noun

Example Sentences

Sip Wines carries wines from California, Oregon, Washington and New York.

From Washington Post

Variants detected in California and New York are now raising concern too.

From Science News

Her cooking career, which she embarked on over three decades ago, would take her to kitchens in London, Paris and New York.

From Washington Post

She and Goffin established a successful career as a Brill Building songwriting duo in New York.

From Washington Post

She said it would begin in San Francisco, which she said had 42 employees, and be implemented in Washington and New York by the end of the year.

From Washington Post

Back in New York, the slow pace and inward focus of her yoga practice was less fulfilling.

From The Daily Beast

Many of those who have become cops in New York seem to have ceased to address such minor offenses over the past few days.

From The Daily Beast

They became so brown and shriveled that they looked like walking beef jerky with New York accents.

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But the people from Valley Stream had such a thick New York accent that was all around me.

From The Daily Beast

Their immediate response tells an important truth about a police slowdown that has spread throughout New York City in recent days.

From The Daily Beast

Her eldest daughter married in America, and was well known as a modeller in wax in New York.

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Election of representatives from New York to consider the federal constitution held.

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Two unsophisticated country lasses visited Niblo's in New York during the ballet season.

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I started for it once, but never even reached the western boundaries of New York.

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He was a member of the first provincial congress, and eighteen years lieutenant governor of the state of New York.

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