Definition of Brooklyn bridge

1. Noun. A suspension bridge across the East River in New York City; opened in 1883.

Generic synonyms: Suspension Bridge
Group relationships: Greater New York, New York, New York City

Definition of Brooklyn bridge

1. Proper noun. A suspension bridge in New York, connecting boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brooklyn Bridge

Brontë
Bronwyn
Bronx
Bronx-Whitestone Bridge
Bronx Bombers
Bronx cheer
Bronx cheers
Bronze Age
Bronze Star
Bronze Star Medal
Brooke
Brooke's disease
Brooke's tumour
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklynese
Brooklynite
Brooklynites
Brooklynn
Brooks
Broon
Broonale
Broonite
Brose
Brosme brosme
Brosmius
Brother
Brothers
Brotulidae

Literary usage of Brooklyn bridge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1905)
"New York and brooklyn bridge. Report of the executive committee of the East River ... Report...on matters relating to the brooklyn bridge, in answer to a ..."

2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"THE brooklyn bridge. "OEOPLE who seventeen years ago di- JL vided an amphibious existence between New York and Brooklyn will long remember their arctic ..."

3. Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge (1903)
"The central span of brooklyn bridge, from tower to tower, is 1595 feet, and each shore part, extending from the tower to the anchorage of the cables, ..."

4. Henry Irving's Impressions of America: Narrated in a Series of Sketches by Joseph Hatton (1884)
""Fussy" — The Brooklyn Ferry — Crossing the North River —A Picturesque Crowd—'Brooklyn Bridge at Night—Warned against Chicago — Conservatism of American ..."

5. Civic Bibliography for Greater New York by Catharine S. Tracey, Howard Brown Woolston, Roger Howson, New York Research Council (1911)
"brooklyn bridge Acts of the State of New York and of the United States in ... В brooklyn bridge. Opening ceremonies of the New York and brooklyn bridge. ..."

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