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JERSEY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A breed of diary cattle developed on the island of Jersey
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Jersey" is a kind of...):
dairy cattle; dairy cow; milch cow; milcher; milk cow; milker (cattle that are reared for their milk)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A slightly elastic machine-knit fabric
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("jersey" is a kind of...):
knit (a fabric made by knitting)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A close-fitting pullover shirt
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("jersey" is a kind of...):
shirt (a garment worn on the upper half of the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jersey"):
polo-neck; turtle; turtleneck (a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The largest of the Channel Islands
Synonyms:
island of Jersey; Jersey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("Jersey" is a kind of...):
Channel Island (any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies
Synonyms:
Garden State; Jersey; N.J.; New Jersey; NJ
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Jersey"):
Delaware Bay (an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River)
Ellis Island (an island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States)
Cape May (a cape of southeast New Jersey extending into the Atlantic Ocean)
Princeton (a university town in central New Jersey)
Paterson (a city of northeastern New Jersey)
New Brunswick (a university town in central New Jersey)
Newark (the largest city in New Jersey; located in northeastern New Jersey)
Morristown (a town in northern New Jersey where the Continental Army spent two winters)
Jersey City (a city in northeastern New Jersey (opposite Manhattan))
Camden (a city in southwestern New Jersey on the Delaware River near Philadelphia)
Bayonne (a city in northeastern New Jersey)
capital of New Jersey; Trenton (capital of the state of New Jersey; located in western New Jersey on the Delaware river)
Atlantic City (a city on the Atlantic shore in southeastern New Jersey; a resort and gambling center)
Domain member region:
Battle of Monmouth; Battle of Monmouth Court House; Monmouth Court House (a pitched battle in New Jersey during the American Revolution (1778) that ended with the withdrawal of British forces)
Holonyms ("Jersey" 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)
Mid-Atlantic states (a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland)
Context examples:
Research at the Center is integrated with the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, School of Public Health, and several schools and departments of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and Princeton University.
(Cancer Institute of New Jersey, NCI Thesaurus)
"Anything I hate is to get my head stuck in a pool," mumbled Miss Baedeker. "They almost drowned me once over in New Jersey."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
And you left him in the lurch, didn't you? You let him go to jail for a month over in New Jersey. God! You ought to hear Walter on the subject of you.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
I even had a short affair with a girl who lived in Jersey City and worked in the accounting department, but her brother began throwing mean looks in my direction so when she went on her vacation in July I let it blow quietly away.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants, but it was already Jay Gatsby who borrowed a row-boat, pulled out to the Tuolomee and informed Cody that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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