New Hampshire
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- proper noun
- /nuː ˈhæmpʃər/
:
Nuevo Hampshire
- The capital of New Hampshire is Concord, known for its rich history.
- State of New Hampshire
- University of New Hampshire
- Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire
Hey, Theo, this is Brendan out of New Hampshire by way of Boston.
- Hey, Theo, this is Brendan out of New Hampshire by way of Boston.
- It's like they're driving the van around New Hampshire being like, Hey, guys.
- I'd rather be in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, or Ohio, right here.
- Oh, I just got back from New Hampshire.
- They're Vermont company and I'm from New Hampshire and this is just them looking down their nose.
- I'm planning on following on to College in New Hampshire.
- My dad taught at this boys boarding school in New Hampshire.
- Not like me, but we were visiting some friends of ours up in Jaffray, New Hampshire a couple of years ago.
- People in the LP of New Hampshire say, you know, woke ISM is taking over the LP.
- USA TODAY kitten heels ends feeble presidential campaign in shame before New Hampshire.
Examples
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An update from the amazing story from Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
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My parents, they live in New Hampshire.
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That was a choice we made to, to remain in New Hampshire as the home base for the family.
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When he took the New Hampshire primary.
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All right, New Hampshire, we are moments away.
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A key testing ground for this strategy is the New Hampshire presidential primary.
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I'm off to New Hampshire, actually.
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We have property all the way up through Maine and New Hampshire.
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Raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, he quickly earned the reputation as class clown at his high school.
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Charlotte traveled by stagecoach from New Hampshire all the way to Worcester, Massachusetts.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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2.4
A state in the northeast of the United States with capital Concord
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A nickname for New Hampshire because of its granite hills
A state in the northeast of the United States with capital Concord
Surface Forms
Morphology
The combination is literally 'new' + the place-name 'Hampshire', so a learner who knows both words will readily infer it denotes a place (a 'new' Hampshire) rather than an idiomatic meaning. The 'New X' toponym pattern is cross-linguistically common, so while encyclopedic details (capital, US state) require world knowledge, the basic referential meaning is directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
The place name New Hampshire comes from English settlers who 'named' the area after the county of Hampshire in England and added New because it was a new version of that place in America. That is why the name means a 'new' Hampshire and today it refers to the US state New Hampshire.