the Bronx
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- proper noun
- /ðə brɒŋks/
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Bronx
- I was born in the Bronx and I lived there for the first seven years of my life.
- the Bronx, New York City
- the Bronx Zoo
- neighborhood in the Bronx
He had Harlem and the Bronx and all of the five boroughs.
- He had Harlem and the Bronx and all of the five boroughs.
- David Spiegel, who you've had here, Rachel Yehuda, the Bronx VA looking at PTSD in adults.
- He equated them to, to the Bronx or Compton or South side of Chicago.
- My mom grew up in a housing project in the Bronx.
- He's very, very well-rounded from the Bronx.
- I go to this place called City Island in the Bronx.
- Gerald is hanging out with Al Novak from the Bronx.
- And we've been reminded of it recently by these ghastly suicides, this horrible torture, and in the Bronx or in Queens.
- And we know that there are a lot of socialists in Manhattan and the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island who would like to come.
- But all I can say is from from my opinion, there is one real Italy and that's the Little Italy in the Bronx.
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Growing up in the Bronx and being that person from the block is really a huge part of who I am still today.
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l'll tell you , the Bronx is an up-and-coming borough .
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So we both taught in the Bronx at the same new school.
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- My family moved to the Bronx when I was ten.
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I grew up in the Bronx.
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One of them was a woman with two kids who lived in the Bronx.
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I was raised in the Bronx, Wesley.
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He grew up in the Bronx and graduated from the High School of Music and Art.
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Please welcome Miguel Sanchez from the Bronx, New York!
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I was born in the Bronx and I lived there for the first seven years of my life.
Synonyms
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The northern part of New York City known for many different cultures and its history
Surface Forms
Morphology
the + Bronx
Knowing 'the' and 'Bronx' only gives the literal place (the borough). The specific metonymic use to mean the New York Yankees, their organization, or their fans depends on cultural/sports knowledge rather than composition of the constituent words, so a B1 learner would not reliably derive that meaning from the parts alone.
Etymology
The Bronx may come from the name of an early settler, Jonas Bronck, who had a farm by a river that people called 'Bronck's'. That's why the name stuck and today it means that part of New York City.