manhattan
/mænˈhætn̩/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative spelling of Manhattan (“cocktail”).
noun
a bar chart representing the number of runs scored in each over (supposed to resemble a skyline of skyscrapers).
name
An indigenous people of North America who lived in present day New York State.
name
A borough of New York City, New York, United States, mainly on Manhattan Island; in full, Borough of Manhattan.
name
A number of places in the United States:
name
A number of places in the United States:
name
A number of places in the United States:
Example Sentences
- "Holonyms: New York < New York < United States < North America < Earth, World"
- "Meronyms: Harlem, Upper West Side, Upper East Side, Lower East Side, Madison Avenue, Wall Street, World Trade Center, Battery"
- "Near-synonyms: New York County, County of New York (coterminous)"
- "Lo, body and soul—this land, / My own Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships, / The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light, Ohio’s shores and flashing Missouri, / And ever the far-spreading prairies cover’d with grass and corn."
- "Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own, a lovely life. A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author, Gopnik lives in Manhattan with his wife, Martha, a film-maker, and their two children, and he moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.”"
- "Manhattan. Dry Manhattan on the rocks."
Etymology
From the earlier form Manna-hata recorded by Dutch travelers and settlers, from its name in Unami, the local Algonquian language. The name generally understood to be a compound of Unami mënatay (“island”) or Munsee munahan (compare Abenaki manahan) with another element. According to a report by John Heckewelder, the name is connected to a wooded area whose trees were suitable for making bows. Linguist Ives Goddard explains the early forms Manna-hatta(n) and Mannahachtink as spellings of Munsee manaháhtaan (“place for gathering the wood to make bows”) and its related locative form manaháhteenk. This interpretation breaks down the word as a compound of manah- (“gather”) + -aht (“bow”) + -aan (“place”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, mënatay, munahan
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /mænˈhætn̩/
- British English: /mænˈhætn̩/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Borough of Manhattan
Manhattan Beach
Manhattan Bridge
Manhattan clam chowder
Manhattan distance
Manhattan Island