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Manhattoes

Manhattoes is the obsolete form of Manhattan.

Meaning of Manhattan

Proper noun

Manhattan

  1. An indigenous people of North America who lived in present day New York State.
  2. A borough of New York City, New York, United States, mainly on Manhattan Island; in full, Borough of Manhattan.
    • Holonyms: New York < New York < United States < North America < Earth, World
  3. An island of New York, United States; in full, Manhattan Island.
    • Lo, body and soul—this land, / My own Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships, / The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light, Ohio’s shores and flashing Missouri, / And ever the far-spreading prairies cover’d with grass and corn.1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems
  4. A ghost town in Larimer County, Colorado, United States.
  5. An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida, United States.
  6. A township in Will County, Illinois, United States.

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Questions about Manhattoes

What is Manhattoes the obsolete form of?
Manhattoes is the obsolete form of Manhattan.

Words near Manhattoes in the dictionary

  1. Manhattanized
  2. Manhattanizes
  3. Manhattanizing
  4. manhattans
  5. Manhattanville
  6. Manhattoes
  7. manhaul
  8. manhauled
  9. manhauling
  10. manhauls
  11. manhead

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Manhattoes (page history and authors); Manhattan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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