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Newmarket
name, noun
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 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 A hamlet in Clay Cross parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3863).
- 3 A hamlet in Nailsworth parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST8399).
- 4 A settlement just north of Stornoway, Western Isles council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NB4235).
- 5 A town in north-west County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref R 3107).
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- 6 A townland in County Kilkenny, Ireland.
- 7 A town in Ontario, Canada.
- 8 A ghost town in Marion County, Missouri, United States.
- 9 A town and census-designated place therein, in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
- 10 A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, north-west of the city centre.
- 11 An inner suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
Noun
- 1 A long, close-fitting cloak. countable
"They delight in blue frock-coats and grass-green Newmarkets, and white hats with mourning-bands."
- 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 A card game in which players try to play their cards in a sequence selected by cards from a second deck. uncountable
- 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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