york : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland
  

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• noun a peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea
  

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• noun state capital of New York; located in eastern New York State on the west bank of the Hudson river
  Albany.
  

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• noun 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
  New York; Greater New York.
  

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• noun the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose
  York.
  

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• noun 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
  New York; Greater New York.
  
• noun a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
  New York; NY; Empire State.
  
• noun one of the British colonies that formed the United States
  

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• noun North American perennial herb having small autumn-blooming purple or pink or white flowers; widely naturalized in Europe
  Aster novi-belgii; Michaelmas daisy.
  

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• noun a bay of the North Atlantic; fed by the Hudson River
  

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• noun 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
  New York; Greater New York.
  

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• noun slender shield fern of moist woods of eastern North America; sometimes placed in genus Dryopteris
  Dryopteris noveboracensis; Parathelypteris novae-boracensis.
  

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• noun a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
  instant; wink; blink of an eye; flash; twinkling; jiffy; heartbeat; split second; trice.
  
  • if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash

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• noun a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
  New York; NY; Empire State.
  

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• noun a system of canals crossing New York State and connecting the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and Lake Champlain
  

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• noun a stock exchange in New York
  NYSE; big board; N. Y. Stock Exchange.
  

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• noun steak from upper part of the short loin
  strip steak.
  

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York" use`

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1. (Eccl.) The one of the three printed uses of England which was followed in the north. It was based on the Sarum use. See Use, n., 6. Shipley.

Webster 1913