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GRANITE STATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies
Synonyms:
Granite State; N.H.; New Hampshire; NH
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Granite State"):
Dartmouth; Dartmouth College (a college in New Hampshire)
capital of New Hampshire; Concord (capital of the state of New Hampshire; located in south central New Hampshire on the Merrimack river)
Manchester (largest city in New Hampshire; located in southeastern New Hampshire on the Merrimack river)
Portsmouth (a port town in southeastern New Hampshire on the Atlantic Ocean)
Merrimack; Merrimack River (a river that rises in south central New Hampshire and flows through Concord and Manchester into Massachusetts and empties into the Atlantic Ocean)
Holonyms ("Granite State" 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)
New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)
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