Definition of: New York

1. A State of the NE United States on the Atlantic; 49,576 square miles; capital, Albany; entered the Union July 26, 1788; one of the thirteen original States; nickname, Empire State: abbr. NY
2. A port at the mouth of the Hudson River in SE New York, divided into the five boroughs of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Richmond, comprising the largest city of the United States; 365 square miles: also Greater New York.