Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A borough of New York City in southeast New York on the mainland north of Manhattan. The Bronx was first settled by Jonas Bronck (died c. 1643), a Dane in the service of the Dutch West India Company, and became part of New York City in 1898.
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- proper noun A
borough ofNew York City .
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- noun a borough of New York City
Etymologies
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Examples
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MAJORA CARTER, FOUNDER, SUSTAINABLE SOUTH BRONX: Communities like the south Bronx get are all the things that other communities don't want.
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MAJORA CARTER, FOUNDER, SUSTAINABLE SOUTH BRONX: Communities like the south Bronx get are all the things that other communities don't want.
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In fact, looking at the median family, per capita, and % poverty shows that Manhattan has a slightly higher median than the bronx, but Manhattan has both much more poverty and much more wealth higher poverty rate and higher mean than the Bronx.
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RELATED: Breaking: Lower Merion School District admits it's used Webcam "security feature" more than once Tags: bronx is 339, daniel ackerman, digital nation, douglas young, lower merion school district PBS documentary shows Bronx school watching unwitting students via Webcams [...]
The Clog 2010
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BRONX - 21 year old Bronx resident Angie Morelli recently visited here favorite STD stat sites just to reassure herself that "not getting laid really isn't that bad" after all.
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In A BRONX TALE, Palminteri brings 18 characters to vivid life, depicting a rough childhood on Bronx streets populated by a cast of friends and enemies.
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In A BRONX TALE, Palminteri brings 18 characters to vivid life, depicting a rough childhood on Bronx streets populated by a cast of friends and enemies.
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BRONX - A 27-year-old Yonkers man was arrested on charges he fired an arrow that injured a Yonkers woman dropping off fellow parishioners at a Bronx nursing home, New York City police said last night.
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In A BRONX TALE, the celebrated play on which he based the legendary movie, Palminteri vividly depicts a young boy's rough childhood in the 1960s-era Bronx and the unforgettable people he encountered.
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In A BRONX TALE, Palminteri brings 18 characters to vivid life, depicting a rough childhood on Bronx streets populated by a cast of friends and enemies.
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