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Newark

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈnjuːək//
  • United States//ˈnuːəɹk//
  • United States//nʊəɹk//
  • United States//ˈnuːɑːɹk//

Any of several places: A civil parish and town with a town council in Nottinghamshire, England.

proper noun

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    Any of several places: A civil parish and town with a town council in Nottinghamshire, England.

  2. 2

    Any of several places: A suburb of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, formerly a hamlet in the parish of Saint Mary the Virgin in the Soke of Peterborough (OS grid ref TF2100).

  3. 3

    Any of several places: A number of places in the United States: A small city in Independence County, Arkansas.

  4. 4

    Any of several places: A number of places in the United States: A city in Alameda County, California.

  5. 5

    Any of several places: A number of places in the United States: A city in New Castle County, Delaware.

  6. 6

    Any of several places: A number of places in the United States: A village in Kendall County, Illinois.

  7. 7

    Any of several places: A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Beech Creek Township, Greene County, Indiana.

  8. 8

    Any of several places: A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in Worcester County, Maryland.

  9. 9

    Any of several places: A number of places in the United States: A village in Knox County, Missouri.

  10. 10

    Any of several places: A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Kearney County, Nebraska.

  11. 11

    Any of several places: A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Essex County, New Jersey, the largest city in the US with this name.

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    Any of several places: A number of places in the United States: An international airport in Essex County, New Jersey.

  13. 13

    Any of several places: A number of places in the United States: A village in Wayne County, New York.

  14. 14

    Any of several places: A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Licking County, Ohio.

  15. 15

    Any of several places: A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Marshall County, South Dakota.

  16. 16

    Any of several places: A number of places in the United States: A small city in Tarrant County and Wise County, Texas.

  17. 17

    Any of several places: A number of places in the United States: A small town in Caledonia County, Vermont.

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    Any of several places: A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia.

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    Any of several places: A number of places in the United States: A town in Rock County, Wisconsin.

Etymology

Probably from Old English nīewe (“new”) + weorc (“work”). In this case, a perhaps more accurate sense of "work" would be that of a building, as an example of a work of labor. It appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Newerche.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).