new jersey

Questions about new jersey

What does new jersey mean?

new jersey means "a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for new jersey?

Close synonyms include Jersey, Garden State, NJ, N.J.. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is new jersey a common word?

new jersey is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.