West Point
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in the town of Highlands, New York, Orange County, United States overlooking the Hudson River, occupied by the United States Army and including the United States Military Academy.
glosses: USMA (“United States Military Academy”) (U.S. Army service academy), in West Point, NY.
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A cape and unincorporated community in the southwest corner of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
examples: text: The shelters at West Point and Po Yan Street will be opened on December 1st., and suitable premises at Yaumati have now been found at the corner of Shantung St. and Sai Yeung Choi St. on the ground floor of a knitting factory.
ref: 1936 November 21, “Street Sleepers' Shelter Society”, in Hongkong Daily Press, number 24418, Hongkong, →OCLC, page 6, column 5:
text: The body of rich merchant Woo Chi-kiu, 49, tucked inside a gunnysack, was found bobbing in the harbour waters off Hong Kong’s West Point on November 29 last year.
ref: c. 1970, “Murder trial bares trail of vice”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 85?, column 1:
text: The sea passage between Hong Kong's West Point and the Green Island is called Sulphur Channel after HMS Sulphur.
ref: 2002, Solomon Bard, “Introduction”, in Voices from the Past: Hong Kong, 1842-1918, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1:
text: North Point is the only one of Hong Kong Island's geographical 'points' to have retained its name. West Point, below Hong Kong University, and East Point, out on the Causeway Bay waterfront, have been mostly forgotten. And all have been significantly altered by successive waves of reclamation.
ref: 2009 December 13, Jason Wordie, “Out and about”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2023, Latest:
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