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 of New York City.

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  • noun a borough of New York City

Etymologies

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Originally Bronck's Land after Jonas Bronck (1600–1643).

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Examples

  • MAJORA CARTER, FOUNDER, SUSTAINABLE SOUTH BRONX: Communities like the south Bronx get are all the things that other communities don't want.

    CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2007 2007

  • MAJORA CARTER, FOUNDER, SUSTAINABLE SOUTH BRONX: Communities like the south Bronx get are all the things that other communities don't want.

    CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2007 2007

  • 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.

    The Richest and Poorest Counties and Cities in the US 2006

  • 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

  • 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.

    unknown title 2009

  • 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.

    unknown title 2009

  • 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.

    unknown title 2009

  • 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.

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2008

  • 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.

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2008

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