EAST RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does East River mean? 

• EAST RIVER (noun)
  The noun EAST RIVER has 1 sense:

1. a tidal strait separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Queens and Brooklyn

  Familiarity information: EAST RIVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EAST RIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tidal strait separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Queens and Brooklyn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

sound; strait (a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water)

Holonyms ("East River" is a part of...):

Greater New York; New York; New York City (the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center)