YORKSHIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yorkshire mean? 

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

1. a former large county in northern England; in 1974 it was divided into three smaller counties

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• YORKSHIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former large county in northern England; in 1974 it was divided into three smaller counties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

Your Yorkshire friend—your correspondent in Yorkshire;—that would be the way, I suppose, if I were very bad.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The burly De Clisson, however, restored the hopes of the attackers by beating to the ground Sir Thomas Wake of Yorkshire.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Show me a man who can hit ’em and hold ’em on a Yorkshire dale-side, and that’s the man who comes from the right school.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They are hospitable, with true Yorkshire hospitality: give a guest everything, and leave him free to do as he likes.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And in a louder, steadier tone, he concluded with, “He will soon be gone. They will soon be in Yorkshire. I am sorry for her. She deserves a better fate.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Already the sudden storm is passing, and its fierceness is abating; crowds are scattering homeward, and the sky is beginning to redden over the Yorkshire wolds.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then, of the younger men, Sir Thomas Percy of Northumberland, Sir Thomas Wake of Yorkshire, and Sir William Beauchamp of Gloucestershire, were finally selected to uphold the honor of England.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Indeed!—from Yorkshire, I think.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

On looking at it I found in certain places little rings marked, and on examining these I noticed that one was near London on the east side, manifestly where his new estate was situated; the other two were Exeter, and Whitby on the Yorkshire coast.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Behind them a group of swaggering, half-drunken Yorkshire dalesmen, speaking a dialect which their own southland countrymen could scarce comprehend, their jerkins marked with the pelican, which showed that they had come over in the train of the north-country Stapletons.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)