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Ellis Island

noun

  1. an island in upper New York Bay: a former U.S. immigrant examination station.


Ellis Island

1
  1. An island in the harbor of New York City . The chief immigration station of the United States was on Ellis Island from 1892 to 1943, a time when millions of people, especially from Europe , came to the United States.


Ellis Island

2
  1. Island in the harbor of New York City , southwest of Manhattan .

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Notes

1990 marked the opening of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.
Ellis Island lies near the Statue of Liberty , which made an impressive sight for people approaching the United States for the first time.

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Example Sentences

The first human being to come through Ellis Island was an unaccompanied minor.

Thousands of unaccompanied minors followed her through Ellis Island.

They had a delicatessen first in Brooklyn, then in Queens, and they entered the country legally through Ellis Island.

In Encountering Ellis Island, historian Ronald Bayor probes the opportunities and the bigotry faced by immigrants to the U.S.

Bayor claims Ellis Island represented much more than just a processing station for immigrants.

They had been turned back from the emigrant station on Ellis Island, and were now sadly returning to Liverpool.

The climax to all of our troubles was the making out of our declaration and being held in quarantine at Ellis Island.

It is this statue which immigrants, on their way to Ellis Island, are wont to apostrophise.

If we are sophisticated, we may not be good enough for Ellis Island.

The career of this young man up to the time of his landing at Ellis Island is significant, to say the least.

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