Harlem

English

Etymology

(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.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑː(ɹ)ləm/
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Harlem

  1. 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.
  2. Obsolete form of Haarlem. A city in Randstad, North Holland, Netherlands

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