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 City. 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. Abbreviation: N.Y.C..  NYC. Also called: New 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)

2. Abbreviation: N.Y..  NY. 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)

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.

One of the thirteen colonies.

Other Word Forms

• New Yorker noun

Example Sentences

They later went public with their discovery in a New York Times piece in October.

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The long trans-Atlantic sailing was especially attractive because we had six consecutive sea days on the way to New York after our stops in Spain and Gibraltar.

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A 1975 New York Times article featured educators who saw calculators as undermining “basic skills like reading, writing, and arithmetic.”

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Within just two years, New York has shifted from an ambitious all-electric housing plan to approving a $1 billion gas pipeline expansion.

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“People get very excited about what their position has done for them,” says Douglas Boneparth, president of Bone Fide Wealth in New York City and co-author of Money Together.

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