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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies
Synonyms:
Garden State; Jersey; N.J.; New Jersey; NJ
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "New Jersey"):
Delaware Bay (an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River)
Atlantic City (a city on the Atlantic shore in southeastern New Jersey; a resort and gambling center)
capital of New Jersey; Trenton (capital of the state of New Jersey; located in western New Jersey on the Delaware river)
Bayonne (a city in northeastern New Jersey)
Camden (a city in southwestern New Jersey on the Delaware River near Philadelphia)
Jersey City (a city in northeastern New Jersey (opposite Manhattan))
Morristown (a town in northern New Jersey where the Continental Army spent two winters)
Newark (the largest city in New Jersey; located in northeastern New Jersey)
New Brunswick (a university town in central New Jersey)
Paterson (a city of northeastern New Jersey)
Princeton (a university town in central New Jersey)
Cape May (a cape of southeast New Jersey extending into the Atlantic Ocean)
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...):
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)
Mid-Atlantic states (a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland)
Sense 2
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)
Context examples:
Research at the Center is integrated with the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, School of Public Health, and several schools and departments of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and Princeton University.
(Cancer Institute of New Jersey, NCI Thesaurus)
"Anything I hate is to get my head stuck in a pool," mumbled Miss Baedeker. "They almost drowned me once over in New Jersey."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
And you left him in the lurch, didn't you? You let him go to jail for a month over in New Jersey. God! You ought to hear Walter on the subject of you.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
