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MANHATTAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cocktail made with whiskey and sweet vermouth with a dash of bitters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("manhattan" is a kind of...):

cocktail (a short mixed drink)

Meronyms (substance of "manhattan"):

Italian vermouth; sweet vermouth (sweet dark amber variety)

whiskey; whisky (a liquor made from fermented mash of grain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manhattan"):

Rob Roy (a manhattan cocktail made with Scotch whiskey)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One of the five boroughs of New York City

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

borough (one of the administrative divisions of a large city)

Meronyms (parts of "Manhattan"):

Wall St.; Wall Street (a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located; symbol of American finance)

Times Square (the area of Manhattan around the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue; heart of the New York theater district; site of annual celebration of New Year's)

off-Broadway (low-budget theaters located outside the Broadway area in Manhattan)

Park Ave.; Park Avenue (a fashionable residential street in New York City)

Broadway; Great White Way (a street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters)

Bowery (a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts)

SoHo; South of Houston (a district in southwestern Manhattan noted for its shops and restaurants and galleries and artist's lofts)

Hell's Half Acre; Hell's Kitchen (a district in Manhattan formerly noted for its slums and vice)

Harlem (a district of Manhattan; now largely a Black ghetto)

Central Park (a large park in Manhattan)

Seventh Avenue (an avenue in Manhattan that runs north and south)

Fifth Avenue (an avenue in Manhattan that separates the east side of Manhattan from the west side)

Holonyms ("Manhattan" 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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