Meaning of Manhattan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A cocktail made from whiskey, sweet vermouth and bitters.
2. Alternative spelling of Manhattan (“cocktail”).
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3. An indigenous people of North America who lived in present day New York State.
4. a bar chart representing the number of runs scored in each over (supposed to resemble a skyline of skyscrapers).
5. A borough of New York City, New York, United States, mainly on Manhattan Island; in full, Borough of Manhattan.
6. An island of New York, United States; in full, Manhattan Island.
7. A number of places in the United States:
8. A ghost town in Larimer County, Colorado, United States.
9. An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida, United States.
10. A township in Will County, Illinois, United States.
11. A village in Will County, Illinois, United States.
12. An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Indiana, United States.
13. A city, the county seat of Riley County, Kansas, United States.
14. A town in Gallatin County, Montana, United States.
15. An unincorporated community in Nye County, Nevada, United States.

Equivalents

Examples

“Holonyms: New York < New York < United States < North America < Earth, World”

“Meronyms: Harlem, Upper West Side, Upper East Side, Lower East Side, Madison Avenue, Wall Street, World Trade Center, Battery”

“Near-synonyms: New York County, County of New York (coterminous)”

“Lo, body and soul—this land, / My own Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships, / The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light, Ohio’s shores and flashing Missouri, / And ever the far-spreading prairies cover’d with grass and corn.”

“Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own, a lovely life. A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author, Gopnik lives in Manhattan with his wife, Martha, a film-maker, and their two children, and he moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.””

“Manhattan. Dry Manhattan on the rocks.”

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