New York City

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Proper noun

New York City

1. New York City is the largest city in the United States of America. It consists of five boroughs: Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. The city is situated on the Atlantic Coast at the mouth of the Hudson River in the northeastern state of New York.
2. Manhattan.

Usage notes

New York City may alone refer to the one borough or island of Manhattan but usually refers to the entire city spanning all five boroughs. The city’s official name is New York but is commonly referred to as New York City (NYC); the City of New York; or New York, New York (NY, NY), in order to distinguish it from New York State.

Synonyms

• The Big Apple (informal)
• Gotham (informal; coined by Washington Irving in 1807)

Derived terms

• New Yorker

Translations

large city in the USA

• Afrikaans: New York Stad (af)
• Arabic: نيويورك (ar) (niuyórk) m
• Armenian: Նյու Յորք (hy) (Nyu York’) 
• Basque: York Berri (eu)
• Belarusian: Нью-Ёрк (be) (Nʹju-Jórk) m , Нью-Йорк (be) (Nʹju-Jórk) m 
• Bulgarian: Ню Йорк (bg) (Nju Jork) m 
• Catalan: Nova York (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 紐約市, 纽约市 (nau2 joek3 si5), 紐約, 纽约 (nau2 joek3)

  Mandarin: 紐約市 (cmn), 纽约市 (cmn) (Niǔyuē Shì), 紐約 (cmn), 纽约 (cmn) (Niǔyuē)

• Cornish: Evrek Nowydh (kw)
• Czech: New York (cs)
• Danish: New York (da)
• Dutch: New York (nl)
• Esperanto: Novjorko (eo)
• Estonian: New York (et)
• Finnish: New York (fi)
• French: New York (fr), Ville de New York f
• Galician: Nova Iorque (gl)
• German: New York City (de), New York (de)
• Greek: Νέα Υόρκη (el) (néa iórci) , Πόλη Νέας Υόρκης (el) (póli néas iórcis) f 
• Hebrew: ניו יורק (he) (nyu york)
• Hindi: न्यूयॉर्क (hi) (n'yūyork), न्यू यार्क (hi) (n'yū york)
• Hungarian: New York (hu)
• Icelandic: Nýja-Jórvík (is) f, New York borg (is)
• Ido: Nova-York (io)
• Indonesian: New York (id)
• Irish: Nua-Eabhrac (ga)
• Italian: New York (it) f, Nuova York (it) f
• Japanese: ニューヨーク市 (ja) (Nyūyōkushi), ニューヨーク (ja) (Nyūyōku), 紐育 (ja) (Nyūyōku)
• Khmer: ក្រុងញូវយ៉ក (km) (krong nyuuw yɑɑk)

• Korean: 뉴욕 시 (ko) (Nyuyok si), 뉴욕 시티 (ko) (Nyuyok siti), 뉴욕 (ko) (Nyuyok)
• Kurdish: Nû York (ku) f, New York (ku) f
• Lao: ນີວຢອກ (lo) (niiw-jöök)
• Latin: Novum Eboracum (la)
• Limburgish: New York (li)
• Lithuanian: Niujorkas (lt)
• Low German: New York (nds)
• Macedonian: Њу Јорк (mk) (Nju Jork), Њујорк (mk) (Njújork) m
• Navajo: Nííyóó sídii, Kin Yótʼááh Deezʼá
• Norwegian (Bokmål): New York
• Occitan: Nòva York (oc)
• Persian: نیویورک (fa) (Nyuyurk)
• Polish: Nowy Jork (pl)
• Portuguese: Nova Iorque (pt) f
• Romanian: New York (ro)
• Russian: Нью-Йорк (ru) (Nʹju-Jórk) m , г. Нью-Йорк (ru) (g. Nʹju-Jórk) m , город Нью-Йорк (ru) (górod Nʹju-Jórk) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: Eabhraig Nuadh (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Њујорк (sh) m

  Roman: Njujork (sh) m

• Sicilian: Nova York (scn), Nova Jorca (scn)
• Slovak: New York (sk)
• Slovene: New York (sl)
• Spanish: Nueva York (es)
• Swedish: New York (sv)
• Tagalog: Lungsod ng New York (tl)
• Thai: นครนิวยอร์ก (th) (nákon níwáyôk)
• Ukrainian: Нью-Йорк (uk) (Nʹju-Jórk) 
• Vietnamese: Thành phố New York (vi), New York (vi)
• Welsh: Dinas Efrog Newydd (cy)
• Yiddish: ניו־יאָרק (yi) (Nyu-York), ניו יאָרק (yi) (Nyu York)

Quotations

• 1971, Carol King and Toni Stern, “Where You Lead”, Tapestry, Ode Records

  I always wanted a real home with flowers on the window sill,

  But if you want to live in New York City, honey, you know I will.

• 2007, Pulitzer Prize winning author Frank McCourt recently described New York City as, “an urban oasis of togetherness and a beacon of man’s compassion toward fellow man.”