NEW ENGLAND

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does New England mean? 

• NEW ENGLAND (noun)
  The noun NEW ENGLAND has 1 sense:

1. a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut

  Familiarity information: NEW ENGLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW ENGLAND (noun)

Meaning:

A region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut

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 "New England"):

Maine; ME; Pine Tree State; Green Mountain State; Vermont; VT (a state in New England)

Little Rhody; Ocean State; Rhode Island; RI (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies; the smallest state)

Connecticut; Constitution State; CT; Nutmeg State (a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies)

Granite State; New Hampshire; NH; Bay State; MA; Massachusetts; Old Colony (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies)

Meronyms (members of "New England"):

New Englander; Yankee (an American who lives in New England)

Domain member region:

hasty pudding (cornmeal mush served with sweetening (maple syrup or brown sugar))

johnny cake; johnnycake; journey cake (cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England))

anadama bread (a yeast-raised bread made of white flour and cornmeal and molasses)

Holonyms ("New England" 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)