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.
Proper noun
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.
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- Obsolete form of Haarlem.. A city in Randstad, North Holland, Netherlands
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