New Haven

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noun

a seaport in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.

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Words nearby New Haven

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How to use New Haven in a sentence

My mother worked behind a sewing machine in the sweatshops of New Haven, Connecticut.
The Fight Against Child Poverty in America Finally Takes a Big Step Forward|Rosa DeLauro|March 11, 2021|Time
Later, they backed off and said hybrid systems would be all right, and they did not stop the state’s largest district, New Haven, from staying fully remote.
In Connecticut, Miguel Cardona led a full-court press for schools to reopen|Laura Meckler, Nick Anderson|February 2, 2021|Washington Post
If we’re going to war with New Haven, that could have damaged our credibility.
In Connecticut, Miguel Cardona led a full-court press for schools to reopen|Laura Meckler, Nick Anderson|February 2, 2021|Washington Post
I had traveled into various outbreaks in Chicago, Los Angeles, three cities in Texas, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, New York and New Haven, Connecticut.
“Those of Us Who Don’t Die Are Going to Quit”: A Crush of Patients, Dwindling Supplies and the Nurse Who Lost Hope|by J. David McSwane|December 30, 2020|ProPublica

The pie, so big and so thick that it makes you wonder if it’s still even pizza, has been parading around as Chicago’s ambassador, putting itself up against New York and New Haven pies.
If You Think Deep Dish Is Chicago’s True Pizza, Think Again|Joshua Eferighe|December 11, 2020|Ozy
That is why Malloy is campaigning on a lonely stretch of barber shops and boxing gyms in New Haven a week before the election.
Dan Malloy Is Progressives’ Dream Governor. So Why Isn’t He Winning?|David Freedlander|October 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It's a leisurely drive of less than 250 miles from Gloucester, Massachusetts to New Haven, Connecticut.
The U.S. Road Trips You Should Really Take|Lonely Planet|April 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“They get to work with faculty, take classes, meet the students, find out what life is like in New Haven,” says Van Lieu.
What Did Lupita Nyong’o’s Classmates at Yale Think of Her?|Tricia Romano|March 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The New Haven-based group has spent a decade investigating human-rights abuses in Iran and is spearheading the project.
New Facebook Project Imitates Virtual Iranian Prison|Nina Strochlic|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Yale-New Haven team later “issued a report which concluded that Mr. Allen had not sexually abused Dylan.”
Inside the Shocking Custody Case Court Documents that Shed Light on the Dylan Farrow-Woody Allen Saga|Marlow Stern|February 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Henry Doggett, an officer of the revolutionary army, died at New Haven, aged 86.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
Connecticut comprised now about the same number as the latter, three thousand, and New Haven half a thousand less.
William Bradford of Plymouth|Albert Hale Plumb
At about the same time an interesting meeting was held by several Connecticut ministers at New Haven.
The Story of the Thirteen Colonies|H. A. (Hlne Adeline) Guerber
And he even confessed that he had already bought a lot of furniture and stored it in New Haven, in one of Mr. Merriwether's lofts.
Belford's Magazine, Vol. II, No. 3, February 1889|Various
The men on the sloop expected him to return to New Haven with them that night, but he did not do so.
Belford's Magazine, Vol. II, No. 3, February 1889|Various

British Dictionary definitions for New Haven (1 of 2)

Newhaven

/ (ˈnjuːˌheɪvən) /

noun

a ferry port and resort on the S coast of England, in East Sussex. Pop: 12 276 (2001)

British Dictionary definitions for New Haven (2 of 2)

New Haven

noun

an industrial city and port in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound: settled in 1638 by English Puritans, who established it as a colony in 1643; seat of Yale University (1701). Pop: 124 512 (2003 est)

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Cultural definitions for New Haven

New Haven

City in southern Connecticut.

notes for New Haven

Location of Yale University.