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LONG ISLAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Meronyms (parts of "Long Island"):
Elmont (a town on Long Island in New York; site of Belmont Park)
Kennedy; Kennedy International; Kennedy International Airport (a large airport on Long Island to the east of New York City)
Long Island Sound (a sound between Long Island and Connecticut)
Holonyms ("Long Island" is a part of...):
Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)
Context examples:
Contemporary legends such as the underground pipe-line to Canada attached themselves to him, and there was one persistent story that he didn't live in a house at all, but in a boat that looked like a house and was moved secretly up and down the Long Island shore.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented place that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village—appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short cut from nothing to nothing.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
