manhattan
Definitions
noun
Alternative spelling of Manhattan (“cocktail”).
a bar chart representing the number of runs scored in each over (supposed to resemble a skyline of skyscrapers).
name
An indigenous people of North America who lived in present day New York State.
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
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.”
A number of places in the United States:
A number of places in the United States:
noun
A cocktail made from whiskey, sweet vermouth and bitters.
Manhattan. Dry Manhattan on the rocks.