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East River en · PROPN

Etymology

east + river * (New York City): From being a river-like channel lying east of Manhattan (“New York City”)

Meanings

  1. A channel in New York City, New York Harbor, at the narrow end of Long Island Sound, separating Manhattan, from Long Island.
    • The East River moved over the bedrock riddled with the tunnels of deep underground trains and connected with the Hudson, flowing southeast past the Statue of Liberty, out of New York Harbor and out into the Atlantic. 2010, Emily St. John Mandel, The Singer’s Gun, Picador (2015), page 223:

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Translations (2)

ru Ист-Ри́вер (Translations) · fr East River (Translations)

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