ATLANTIC CITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Atlantic City mean? 

• ATLANTIC CITY (noun)
  The noun ATLANTIC CITY has 1 sense:

1. a city on the Atlantic shore in southeastern New Jersey; a resort and gambling center

  Familiarity information: ATLANTIC CITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATLANTIC CITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city on the Atlantic shore in southeastern New Jersey; a resort and gambling center

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Atlantic City" is a part of...):

Garden State; Jersey; N.J.; New Jersey; NJ (a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies)

 Context examples 

Go to Atlantic City for a week, or up to Montreal.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)