an area of Brooklyn, New York, famous for its amusement park and beach. Amusement area, southern Brooklyn, New York, N.Y., U.S. It was an island in the Atlantic Ocean until its creek silted up and it became part of Long Island. The first pavilion and bathhouse were erected in 1844, and it gained popularity with the coming of the subway in 1920. It has a 3.5-mi (5.6-km) boardwalk, an amusement park known for its rollercoaster (the Cyclone), and sideshows (notably Coney Island U.S.A.). It is also the site of the New York Aquarium
or coney Any of certain unrelated animals, including two mammals and two fishes. One mammalian cony is more commonly called a pika. The name cony was once applied to the rabbit and is still sometimes used in the fur business to indicate rabbit fur. The cony of the Old World and the Bible is an unrelated mammal, the hyrax. A variety of whitefish is also called cony, as are certain varieties of sea bass
[ 'kO-nE, 1 also 'k&- ] (noun.) 12th century. Back-formation from Middle English plural, conies, from Anglo-Norman conis, plural of conil, from Latin cuniculus 'rabbit', from Proto-Basque *kuntxi (compare Basque untxi).