EAST RIVER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tidal strait separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Queens and Brooklyn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

sound; strait (a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water)

Holonyms ("East River" 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)

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