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geographical name(New York)state in northeastern U.S. bordering on Long Island Sound, the Atlantic Ocean, Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec; capital Albany area 49,576 square miles (121,898 square kilometers), population 19,378,102
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geographical name(New York)city and port in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson River population 8,175,133
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geographical name(New York)the borough of Manhattan in New York City population 1,585,873
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noun(New York)a very brief span of time : instant, flash
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geographical name(New York)canal 363 miles (584 kilometers) long in northern New York from the Hudson River at Albany to Lake Erie at Buffalo; built 1817—25; superseded by the New York State Barge Canal (about 525 miles, or 840 kilometers, long)
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geographical name(New York)inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern New York state and northeastern New Jersey at the mouth of the Hudson River forming the harbor of metropolitan New York City and consisting of Upper New York Bay and Lower New York Bay connected by the Narrows (strait separating Staten Island and Long Island)
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geographical name(New York)town on the Hudson River in northeastern New Jersey population 49,708
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idiom(New York)in a very short period of time : in an instant