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Newman

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈnjuːmən//
  • United States//ˈnumən//

A surname transferred from the nickname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname transferred from the nickname.

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:Newman.

  2. 2

    A male given name transferred from the surname.

  3. 3

    A number of places in the United States: A city in Stanislaus County, California.

  4. 4

    A number of places in the United States: A minor city in Douglas County, Illinois.

  5. 5

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Kansas.

  6. 6

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Daviess County, Kentucky.

  7. 7

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Otero County, New Mexico.

  8. 8

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Stark County, Ohio, named after Newman Creek.

  9. 9

    A number of places in the United States: A neighbourhood of El Paso, Texas.

  10. 10

    A number of places in the United States: A number of townships in the United States, listed under Newman Township.

  11. 11

    A town in the Shire of East Pilbara, Pilbara region, in the north of Western Australia, originally named Mount Newman after a local mountain.

Etymology

From new + man: a "newcomer".

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).