SHEFFIELD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sheffield mean? 

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

1. a steel manufacturing city in northern England famous for its cutlery industry

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHEFFIELD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A steel manufacturing city in northern England famous for its cutlery industry

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 ("Sheffield" is a part of...):

South Yorkshire (a metropolitan county in northern England)

 Context examples 

Nor do I recollect that Mr. Murdstone laughed at all that day, except at the Sheffield joke—and that, by the by, was his own.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I find it very curious to see my own infant face, looking up at me from the Crocodile stories; and to be reminded by it of my old acquaintance Brooks of Sheffield.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Only Brooks of Sheffield,” said Mr. Murdstone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“You are Brooks of Sheffield. That's your name.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This he did; and when the wine came, he made me have a little, with a biscuit, and, before I drank it, stand up and say, “Confusion to Brooks of Sheffield!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After some laughing, the gentleman whom he had called Quinion, said: And what is the opinion of Brooks of Sheffield, in reference to the projected business?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was quite relieved to find that it was only Brooks of Sheffield; for, at first, I really thought it was I.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I took the opportunity of asking if she was at all acquainted with Mr. Brooks of Sheffield, but she answered No, only she supposed he must be a manufacturer in the knife and fork way.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There seemed to be something very comical in the reputation of Mr. Brooks of Sheffield, for both the gentlemen laughed heartily when he was mentioned, and Mr. Murdstone was a good deal amused also.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)