Norfolk

proper nounnounattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈnɔː(ɹ).fək//
United States//ˈnɔː(ɹ).fək//
United States//ˈnɔː(ɹ).foʊk//

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

proper noun

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
An English dukedom.
3
A surname.
4
A place in the United States, including: A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
5
A place in the United States, including: A town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
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.
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An island of Australia; in full, Norfolk Island.
8
A territory of Australia, including the island; in full, Norfolk Island.
9
A language spoken on Norfolk Island.
10
historicalFormer name of Santa Cruz: an island of Galapagos, Ecuador.
11
Variant of Norfolk CountyEllipsis of Norfolk County: a county of Massachusetts.
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Variant of Norfolk CountyhistoricalEllipsis of Norfolk County: a former county of Virginia, United States.

Etymology

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.

noun

1
A Norfolk jacket.
2
A Norfolk spaniel.

Forms

plural: Norfolks

nor · And... not (introducing a negative statement, without…NOR · A binary operator composite of NOT OR; negation of OR…Nora · A female given name.

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

norm · That which is normal or typical.Norm · A diminutive of the male given name Norman.norma · A norm.

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical 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.