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Bedloe's Island

Bedloe's Island

1 8.0
An island in New York Bay now called Liberty Island, home to the Statue of Liberty
  • proper noun
translation icon : Isla Bedloe
  • Construction began on the Statue of Liberty on what was then known as Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
  • Bedloe's Island

Examples

  • The ten-story Western Union Telegraph Building and the huge new post office were pointed out, as was Bedloe's Island, where Liberty Enlightening the World would be unveiled in three years.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The ten-story Western Union Telegraph Building and the huge new post office were pointed out, as was Bedloe's Island, where Liberty Enlightening the World would be unveiled in three years.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Last Saturday, our kind teachers planned a delightful trip to Bedloe's Island to see Bartholdi's great statue of Liberty enlightening.

  • The ten-story Western Union Telegraph Building and the huge new post office were pointed out, as was Bedloe's Island, where Liberty Enlightening the World would be unveiled in three years.

Synonyms

Liberty Island
vsBedloe's Island
1 3.0

An island near Manhattan in New York Bay with the Statue of Liberty

is the older, historical name formerly used for the same island

Surface Forms

Bedloe's Island main

Morphology

Bedloe's + island

This is a toponym: 'Bedloe's' is a proper name (not semantically transparent) and 'island' only signals a landform. Knowing the constituents does not allow a learner to infer the historical identity or that it is the former name of Liberty Island; that knowledge is encyclopedic and language-specific.

Etymology

Bedloe's Island is named after an early owner, a man called Isaac Bedloe, so people simply called that small island 'Bedloe's Island'. That's why older maps and records use 'Bedloe's Island' even though today the place is called 'Liberty Island' because of the Statue of Liberty.