Harlem
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit](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.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈhɑː(ɹ)ləm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Harlem
- A neighborhood in northern Manhattan, New York County, New York City, New York State, United States, currently known for its black population.
- 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 159:
- This really was Harlem, and now all the stories which I had heard of the city-within-a-city leaped alive in my mind.
- Obsolete form of Haarlem. A city in Randstad, North Holland, Netherlands
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[edit]Translations
[edit]a neighborhood in northern Manhattan
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