Newmarket

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A market town and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in Forest Heath district, with a famous racecourse (OS grid ref TL6463).
  2. 2
    A hamlet in Clay Cross parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3863).
  3. 3
    A hamlet in Nailsworth parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST8399).
  4. 4
    A settlement just north of Stornoway, Western Isles council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NB4235).
  5. 5
    A town in north-west County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref R 3107).
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  1. 6
    A townland in County Kilkenny, Ireland.
  2. 7
    A town in Ontario, Canada.
  3. 8
    A ghost town in Marion County, Missouri, United States.
  4. 9
    A town and census-designated place therein, in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
  5. 10
    A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, north-west of the city centre.
  6. 11
    An inner suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
Noun
  1. 1
    A long, close-fitting cloak. countable

    "They delight in blue frock-coats and grass-green Newmarkets, and white hats with mourning-bands."

  2. 2
    a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in their hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card wordnet
  3. 3
    A card game in which players try to play their cards in a sequence selected by cards from a second deck. uncountable
  4. 4
    a long close-fitting coat worn for riding in the 19th century wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

The cloak and card game are named after the English town.

Etymology 2

The cloak and card game are named after the English town.

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