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Norfolk

EigennameSubstantivin Dialogen belegt

  • Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈnɔː(ɹ).fək//
  • Vereinigte Staaten//ˈnɔː(ɹ).fək//
  • Vereinigte Staaten//ˈnɔː(ɹ).foʊk//

A maritime county of eastern England bordered by Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Suffolk, and the North Sea.

Eigenname

  1. 1

    A maritime county of eastern England bordered by Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Suffolk, and the North Sea.

    Holonyms: East Anglia < East of England < England < Great Britain, Britain < United Kingdom, UK < Earth, World

    The shoreline – a mass of seals and their white pups – is one of Britain’s greatest wildlife success stories: a grey seal colony on the east Norfolk coast.

  2. 2

    An English dukedom.

  3. 3

    A surname.

  4. 4

    A place in the United States, including: A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut.

  5. 5

    A place in the United States, including: A town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts.

  6. 6

    A place in the United States, including: An independent city in Virginia; the largest naval base in the world is situated there.

    Resendiz was last seen on May 29 in her barracks in Miller Hall at Naval Station Norfolk, according to a missing person’s alert issued by Virginia State Police on June 3.

  7. 7

    An island of Australia; in full, Norfolk Island.

  8. 8

    A territory of Australia, including the island; in full, Norfolk Island.

  9. 9

    A language spoken on Norfolk Island.

  10. 10

    historischFormer name of Santa Cruz: an island of Galapagos, Ecuador.

  11. 11

    Variante von Norfolk CountyEllipsis of Norfolk County: a county of Massachusetts.

  12. 12

    Variante von Norfolk CountyhistorischEllipsis of Norfolk County: a former county of Virginia, United States.

Herkunft

From Middle English Northfolk, from Old English Norþfolc (literally “northern people”), from norþ (“north, northern”) + folc (“folk, people, race, nation”), equivalent to north + folk. As an Ecuadorian island, clipping of Duke of Norfolk's Island, bestowed by William Ambrosia Cowley in 1684 honor of Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk; his son Henry, the 7th duke; or both. As an Australian island and territory, bestowed by James Cook in 1774 in honor of Mary Howard, wife of the 9th duke.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A Norfolk jacket.

  2. 2

    A Norfolk spaniel.

Formen

Plural
Norfolks
Die NachbarseitenDie alphabetische Reihenfolge folgt den Regeln der Sprache, nicht den Bytewerten: Ein Akzent entscheidet nur zwischen zwei sonst gleichen Wörtern, und das Spanische führt Ñ als eigenen Buchstaben.

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