manhattan

UK /mænˈhætn̩/ US /mænˈhætn̩/
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Definitions

noun

1

Alternative spelling of Manhattan (“cocktail”).

2

a bar chart representing the number of runs scored in each over (supposed to resemble a skyline of skyscrapers).

name

1

An indigenous people of North America who lived in present day New York State.

2

A borough of New York City, New York, United States, mainly on Manhattan Island; in full, Borough of Manhattan.

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

3

An island of New York, United States; in full, Manhattan Island.

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.”

4

A number of places in the United States:

5

A number of places in the United States:

noun

1

A cocktail made from whiskey, sweet vermouth and bitters.

Manhattan. Dry Manhattan on the rocks.

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