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Harlem

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈhɑː(ɹ)ləm//

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.

proper noun

  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    Variant of HaarlemobsoleteObsolete form of Haarlem: a city in Randstad, North Holland, Netherlands.

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.

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