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NEW YORK BAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bay of the North Atlantic; fed by the Hudson River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
bay; embayment (an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf)
Meronyms (parts of "New York Bay"):
Bedloe's Island; Liberty Island (an island in New York Bay to the southwest of Manhattan where the Statue of Liberty stands)
Holonyms ("New York Bay" is a part of...):
Greater New York; New York; New York City (the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center)
Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)
