EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Empire State Building mean? 

• EMPIRE STATE BUILDING (noun)
  The noun EMPIRE STATE BUILDING has 1 sense:

1. a skyscraper built in New York City in 1931; 1250 feet tall

  Familiarity information: EMPIRE STATE BUILDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMPIRE STATE BUILDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A skyscraper built in New York City in 1931; 1250 feet tall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Instance hypernyms:

skyscraper (a very tall building with many stories)

Holonyms ("Empire State Building" 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)

 Context examples 

Bennu, which is only slightly wider than the height of the Empire State Building, may contain unaltered material from the very beginning of our solar system.

(NASA Mission Reveals Asteroid Has Big Surprises, NASA)