ALLEGHENY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Allegheny mean? 

• ALLEGHENY (noun)
  The noun ALLEGHENY has 1 sense:

1. a river that rises in Pennsylvania and flows north into New York and then back south through Pennsylvania again to join the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh which is the beginning of the Ohio River

  Familiarity information: ALLEGHENY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLEGHENY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A river that rises in Pennsylvania and flows north into New York and then back south through Pennsylvania again to join the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh which is the beginning of the Ohio River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Allegheny; Allegheny River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Allegheny" is a part of...):

Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY; Keystone State; PA; Pa.; Pennsylvania (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)