NORTHAMPTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Northampton mean? 

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

1. the principal city of Northamptonshire

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHAMPTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The principal city of Northamptonshire

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)

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

Northamptonshire (a county is central England)

 Context examples 

You spoke of the balls at Northampton.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You talked of expected horrors in London—and instead of instantly conceiving, as any rational creature would have done, that such words could relate only to a circulating library, she immediately pictured to herself a mob of three thousand men assembling in St. George's Fields, the Bank attacked, the Tower threatened, the streets of London flowing with blood, a detachment of the Twelfth Light Dragoons (the hopes of the nation) called up from Northampton to quell the insurgents, and the gallant Captain Frederick Tilney, in the moment of charging at the head of his troop, knocked off his horse by a brickbat from an upper window.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I believe we must not think of a Northampton ball.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I am assured that it is safe at Northampton; and there it has probably been these ten days, in spite of the solemn assurances we have so often received to the contrary.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Have you never any balls at Northampton?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Thursday was the day of the ball; and on Wednesday morning Fanny, still unable to satisfy herself as to what she ought to wear, determined to seek the counsel of the more enlightened, and apply to Mrs. Grant and her sister, whose acknowledged taste would certainly bear her blameless; and as Edmund and William were gone to Northampton, and she had reason to think Mr. Crawford likewise out, she walked down to the Parsonage without much fear of wanting an opportunity for private discussion; and the privacy of such a discussion was a most important part of it to Fanny, being more than half-ashamed of her own solicitude.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You ought to have had it a week ago, but there has been a delay from my brother's not being in town by several days so soon as I expected; and I have only just now received it at Northampton.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

An enormous roll of green baize had arrived from Northampton, and been cut out by Mrs. Norris (with a saving by her good management of full three-quarters of a yard), and was actually forming into a curtain by the housemaids, and still the play was wanting; and as two or three days passed away in this manner, Edmund began almost to hope that none might ever be found.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The little girl performed her long journey in safety; and at Northampton was met by Mrs. Norris, who thus regaled in the credit of being foremost to welcome her, and in the importance of leading her in to the others, and recommending her to their kindness.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of gratitude and good behaviour which it ought to produce, and her consciousness of misery was therefore increased by the idea of its being a wicked thing for her not to be happy.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)