MID-ATLANTIC STATES

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mid-Atlantic states mean? 

• MID-ATLANTIC STATES (noun)
  The noun MID-ATLANTIC STATES has 1 sense:

1. a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland

  Familiarity information: MID-ATLANTIC STATES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MID-ATLANTIC STATES (noun)

Meaning:

A region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Mid-Atlantic states"):

DE; Delaware; Diamond State; First State; Free State; Maryland; MD; Old Line State (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

Garden State; Jersey; New Jersey; NJ (a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies)

Empire State; New York; New York State; NY; Keystone State; PA; Pennsylvania (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

Holonyms ("Mid-Atlantic states" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)