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AMERICAN FALLS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American Falls mean? 

AMERICAN FALLS (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN FALLS has 1 sense:

1. a part of Niagara Falls in western New York (north of Buffalo)play

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN FALLS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AMERICAN FALLS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A part of Niagara Falls in western New York (north of Buffalo)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

falls; waterfall (a steep descent of the water of a river)

Holonyms ("American Falls" is a part of...):

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

Niagara; Niagara Falls (waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Falls)


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