Meaning of Long Island | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The biggest and longest island of the contiguous United States, located in the state of New York.
2. A Long Island iced tea.
   informal
3. A district and long, thin island of the Bahamas.
4. region of New York state consisting of Nassau County and Suffolk County, to the exclusion of Brooklyn and Queens (the parts of the island found in New York City).
5. An island of Antigua and Barbuda.
6. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Alabama, United States. Synonym: Carpenter.

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Examples

“B. Wooster: Of all the places on this great planet of ours, West Neck, Long Island, has chosen to be the most unexciting. The last⟳ time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over. They still talk⟳ about it in the village.”

“After receiving a $2 million investment on the show⟳, the company moved its headquarters from Queens to Long Island.”

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