NEW JERSEY
Dictionary entry overview: What does New Jersey mean?
• NEW JERSEY (noun)
The noun NEW JERSEY has 2 senses:
1. a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies
2. one of the British colonies that formed the United States
Familiarity information: NEW JERSEY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NEW JERSEY (noun)
Meaning:
A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Garden State; Jersey; New Jersey; NJ
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "New Jersey"):
Newark (the largest city in New Jersey; located in northeastern New Jersey)
Cape May (a cape of southeast New Jersey extending into the Atlantic Ocean)
Princeton (a university town in central New Jersey)
Paterson (a city of northeastern New Jersey)
New Brunswick (a university town in central New Jersey)
Delaware Bay (an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River)
Morristown (a town in northern New Jersey where the Continental Army spent two winters)
Jersey City (a city in northeastern New Jersey (opposite Manhattan))
Camden (a city in southwestern New Jersey on the Delaware River near Pittsburgh)
Bayonne (a city in northeastern New Jersey)
capital of New Jersey; Trenton (capital of the state of New Jersey; located in western New Jersey on the Delaware river)
Atlantic City (a city on the Atlantic shore in southeastern New Jersey; a resort and gambling center)
Ellis Island (an island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States)
Domain member region:
Battle of Monmouth; Battle of Monmouth Court House; Monmouth Court House (a pitched battle in New Jersey during the American Revolution (1778) that ended with the withdrawal of British forces)
Holonyms ("New Jersey" is a part of...):
Mid-Atlantic states (a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland)
Meaning:
One of the British colonies that formed the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Colony (one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States)
