NEW HAMPSHIRE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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 "New Hampshire"):

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 ("New Hampshire" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One of the British colonies that formed the United States