SUSQUEHANNA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Susquehanna mean? 

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

1. a river in the northeastern United States that rises in New York and flows southward through Pennsylvania and Maryland into Chesapeake Bay

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUSQUEHANNA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A river in the northeastern United States that rises in New York and flows southward through Pennsylvania and Maryland into Chesapeake Bay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Susquehanna; Susquehanna River

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Free State; Maryland; MD; Md.; Old Line State; 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)

 Context examples 

He saw himself, stripped to the waist, with naked fists, fighting his great fight with Liverpool Red in the forecastle of the Susquehanna; and he saw the bloody deck of the John Rogers, that gray morning of attempted mutiny, the mate kicking in death- throes on the main-hatch, the revolver in the old man's hand spitting fire and smoke, the men with passion-wrenched faces, of brutes screaming vile blasphemies and falling about him—and then he returned to the central scene, calm and clean in the steadfast light, where Ruth sat and talked with him amid books and paintings; and he saw the grand piano upon which she would later play to him; and he heard the echoes of his own selected and correct words, But then, may I not be peculiarly constituted to write?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)