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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • An unincorporated community of southeast New York on the eastern bank of the Hudson River north of Poughkeepsie. It is the birth and burial place of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • A large public park in west-central London, England. A royal deer park under Henry VIII, it was opened to the public in 1637.

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  • proper noun The name of various parks, neighborhoods, and municipalities.

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  • But since Salman's murder he has been unable to write a word Hyde Park's giant screens will attract 200,000 for royal wedding celebrations He's out!

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • But since Salman's murder he has been unable to write a word Hyde Park's giant screens will attract 200,000 for royal wedding celebrations Road closures for royal wedding will keep traffic off the streets until 11pm Nick Clegg joins in at last to attack 'dinosaurs who are against AV' 'Seizing iPods from yobs won't work': They'll just commit more crime, judges warn

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

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    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • If you were to detonate a bomb in that kind of area, firstly, people would recognize that it was near to Buckingham Palace, it would have a symbolic value in that way, near to Hyde Park, which is the lungs of London where everybody goes out to enjoy themselves.

    CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2007 2007

  • The neighborhood is Hyde Park, which is Cincinnati ` s wealthiest neighborhood.

    CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2005 2005

  • I did Hyde Park, which is a little office that ` s closed to the public, which is where Roosevelt and Churchill basically decided to share the atomic bomb, critically.

    Franklin & Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship 2004

  • Those in academia or in Chicago might know, but others might not, that the University of Chicago is in a neighborhood called Hyde Park, several miles south of downtown and smack in the middle of Chicago's overwhelmingly black South Side.

    11/03/2002 - 11/10/2002 Jacob T. Levy 2002

  • Those in academia or in Chicago might know, but others might not, that the University of Chicago is in a neighborhood called Hyde Park, several miles south of downtown and smack in the middle of Chicago's overwhelmingly black South Side.

    Jacob T. Levy Jacob T. Levy 2002

  • Those in academia or in Chicago might know, but others might not, that the University of Chicago is in a neighborhood called Hyde Park, several miles south of downtown and smack in the middle of Chicago's overwhelmingly black South Side.

    Archive 2002-11-03 Jacob T. Levy 2002

  • If you told them there was a place called Hyde Park where you could stand on an orange-box and shout to hell with the government they'd send you to an asylum for the criminally insane.

    The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968

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