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

Cher grew up with a rootless backdrop that included her mother’s ever-shifting array of husbands, all the while traveling, nomad-like, from one place to another with stints in Pennsylvania, Texas, California and New York.

From Salon

Now, for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic, the company has returned to the United States — but not to New York, where some of the main importers of European work remain diminished and disoriented.

From New York Times

“I would have imagined someone from The New York Times would come here with a suit and a tie,” she said.

From New York Times

Seven cases have been reported in California, two in Illinois, and one each in New York and New Jersey.

From Los Angeles Times

Hongjun Lin from New York University will present results on the acoustic characteristics of a physical model of the Parasaurolophus' crest Thursday, Nov.

From Science Daily