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ERIE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A port city on Lake Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
point of entry; port of entry (a port in the United States where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise)
Holonyms ("Erie" is a part of...):
Keystone State; PA; Pa.; Pennsylvania (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The 4th largest of the Great Lakes; it is linked to the Hudson River by the New York State Barge Canal
Synonyms:
Erie; Lake Erie
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)
Holonyms ("Erie" is a part of...):
Great Lakes (a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Erie" is a kind of...):
Iroquois (any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution)
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