Brooklyn

[brook-lin]

noun

1. a borough of New York City, on W Long Island. 76.4 sq. mi. (198 sq. km).

2. a city in NE Ohio.

Brooklyn

/ ˈbrʊklɪn /

noun

1. a borough of New York City, on the SW end of Long Island. Pop: 2 465 326 (2000)

Brooklyn

1. One of the five boroughs that make up New York City.

It is noted for the special “Brooklyn accent” of its inhabitants.

The Brooklyn Bridge connects Brooklyn with Manhattan.

Other Word Forms

• Brooklynite noun

Example Sentences

A tender city romance about about gentrification and Black melancholy, “Love, Brooklyn” brings together appealing actors and the charms of New York’s ever-changing borough into soft focus.

From Los Angeles Times

And I grew up in in Brooklyn in the ’90s, so I got really heavy into hip-hop in my teenage years.

From Los Angeles Times

But not Blank Street which began in 2020 as a tiny coffee cart in the garden of a Brooklyn diner before expanding across New York, Washington and Boston.

From BBC

One form filed in 2001 regarding a Brooklyn brownstone bought for her family listed the property as having five units, but all the other pertinent forms stated correctly that it was four units.

From Los Angeles Times

“In 2016,” Young wrote, “he said of modern art shown in a Brooklyn Museum exhibition that ‘it’s not art.

From Salon