NORFOLK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Norfolk mean? 

• NORFOLK (noun)
  The noun NORFOLK has 1 sense:

1. port city located in southeastern Virginia on the Elizabeth River at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay; headquarters of the Atlantic fleet of the United States Navy

  Familiarity information: NORFOLK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORFOLK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Port city located in southeastern Virginia on the Elizabeth River at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay; headquarters of the Atlantic fleet of the United States Navy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("Norfolk" is a part of...):

Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)

 Context examples 

I have half an idea of going into Norfolk again soon.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“I expect that we shall be able to go down to Norfolk tomorrow, and to take our friend some very definite news as to the secret of his annoyance.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That’s the Duke of Norfolk—the stout man in blue upon the swish-tailed mare.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Norfolk Terrier is among the smallest of the working terriers.

(Norfolk Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

“I’ve had enough of Norfolk,” said he.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Take care of yourself, jockey of Norfolk!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He is an experienced hand at the work, as he has had for years a launch of his own on the Thames, and another on the Norfolk Broads.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His mother explained to him her liberal designs, in case of his marrying Miss Morton; told him she would settle on him the Norfolk estate, which, clear of land-tax, brings in a good thousand a-year; offered even, when matters grew desperate, to make it twelve hundred; and in opposition to this, if he still persisted in this low connection, represented to him the certain penury that must attend the match.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

For her approbation, the particular reason of his going into Norfolk at all, at this unusual time of year, was given.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

That is what Mr. Hilton Cubitt, of Riding Thorpe Manor, Norfolk, is very anxious to know.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)