manhattan

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of Manhattan (“cocktail”).
2. a bar chart representing the number of runs scored in each over (supposed to resemble a skyline of skyscrapers).
3. A cocktail made from whiskey, sweet vermouth and bitters.

   “Manhattan. Dry Manhattan on the rocks.”

name

1. An indigenous people of North America who lived in present day New York State.
2. A borough of New York City, New York, United States, mainly on Manhattan Island; in full, Borough of Manhattan.

   “Holonyms: New York < New York < United States < North America < Earth, World”

   “Meronyms: Harlem, Upper West Side, Upper East Side, Lower East Side, Madison Avenue, Wall Street, World Trade Center, Battery”

   “Near-synonyms: New York County, County of New York (coterminous)”

3. An island of New York, United States; in full, Manhattan Island.

   “Lo, body and soul—this land, / My own Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships, / The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light, Ohio’s shores and flashing Missouri, / And ever the far-spreading prairies cover’d with grass and corn.”

   “Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own, a lovely life. A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author, Gopnik lives in Manhattan with his wife, Martha, a film-maker, and their two children, and he moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.””

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