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Brooklyn

[ brook-lin ]

noun

  1. a borough of New York City, on W Long Island. 76.4 sq. mi. (198 sq. km).
  2. a city in NE Ohio.


Brooklyn

/ ˈʊɪ /

noun

  1. a borough of New York City, on the SW end of Long Island. Pop: 2 465 326 (2000)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Brooklyn

  1. One of the five boroughs that make up New York City .
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Notes

It is noted for the special “Brooklyn accent” of its inhabitants.
The Brooklyn Bridge connects Brooklyn with Manhattan .
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Other Word Forms

  • Ǵǰ··ٱ [brook, -l, uh, -nahyt], noun
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Example Sentences

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Like his milieu, she said the characters of her memoir, which takes place in Brooklyn from 2016 to 2020, lived in acute awareness of the “ideological bankruptcy” of their time.

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Fifteen signups later, he led the first session in the basement of the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn in August 2023.

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It reached its breaking point in 1959, when Matthew found them together in their Brooklyn Heights home.

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Brooklyn Delhi Beans Sometimes you want a meal that’s fast, comforting, and doesn’t taste like a compromise.

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Brooklyn, around 2010, was really interdisciplinary and there was a lot of experimentation, and I was beginning to explore creative movement direction before I had a term for it.

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