Granite State

proper noun

Official nickname for New Hampshire: a state of the United States.

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Meanings

proper nounthe Granite State
  1. Official nickname for New Hampshire: a state of the United States.

    The action he inaugurated culminated in the law for the suppression of trampage, that has accomplished such good in the Granite State, and that has been so generally copied in other states.

    1882, Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock, The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine, page 382
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APA

Granite State. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Granite%20State

MLA

“Granite State.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Granite%20State. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Granite State,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Granite%20State.

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