Harlem en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈhɑː(ɹ)ləm/
Etymology
(New York City): From Dutch Nieuw Haarlem (“new Haarlem”), the original name of the area under the Dutch control, after Haarlem, a city in the Netherlands.
Meanings
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A neighborhood in northern Manhattan, New York County, New York City, New York State, United States, currently known for its black population and the culture thereof.
Holonyms: Manhattan < New York < New York < United States < North America < Earth, World
This really was Harlem, and now all the stories which I had heard of the city-within-a-city leaped alive in my mind.
1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 159:
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(alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of Haarlem: a city in Randstad, North Holland, Netherlands.
alt of Haarlem
Deriveds
Harlemite · Harlemese · Harlem Renaissance · SoHa · Scarlem · Harlemer
Relateds
Upper East Side · Bronx · World Trade Center · Brooklyn · Battery · Wall Street · Staten Island · Queens · Upper West Side · Lower East Side
Translations (11)
ar هارلم (a neighborhood in northern Manhattan) · ru Га́рлем (a neighborhood in northern Manhattan) · ru Ха́рлем (a neighborhood in northern Manhattan) · cmn 哈林 (a neighborhood in northern Manhattan) · ja ハーレム (a neighborhood in northern Manhattan) · nl Harlem (a neighborhood in northern Manhattan) · el Χάρλεμ (a neighborhood in northern Manhattan) · mn Харлем (a neighborhood in northern Manhattan) · cmn 哈萊姆 /哈莱姆 (a neighborhood in northern Manhattan) · hi हार्लेम (a neighborhood in northern Manhattan) · ar هارليم (a neighborhood in northern Manhattan)