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MID-ATLANTIC STATES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "Mid-Atlantic states"):
DE; Del.; Delaware; Diamond State; First State; Free State; Maryland; MD; Md.; Old Line State (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)
Garden State; Jersey; N.J.; New Jersey; NJ (a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies)
Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY; Keystone State; PA; Pa.; Pennsylvania (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)
Holonyms ("Mid-Atlantic states" is a part of...):
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
