Yorkshire
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4.4
- proper noun
- /ˈjɔːkʃə/
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Yorkshire
- I'd spent the morning wandering around an old ruined abbey in Yorkshire, and it was bitterly cold.
- Yorkshire and Humber
- South Yorkshire
- Yorkshire, England
So I got the criminal justice, I sued South Yorkshire Police and Rosam Council and I won.
- So I got the criminal justice, I sued South Yorkshire Police and Rosam Council and I won.
- Yesterday I was in Northumberland, in Yorkshire, Cumbria and Bedford.
- Mum and Dad's back bedroom and I had local radio on BBC Radio Leeds and they're doing a West Yorkshire sports special from there.
- Would that be the Welsh or, you know, your real country folk N I'd say Yorkshire, Yeah.
- David's always, well, you Leeds, Leeds, the South Yorkshire clubs even, you know, like both Sheffields, Barnsley, Barnsley is always up first.
- So we actually started working with a breeder up in Yorkshire who keeps a large population of essentially wild American turkeys.
- I mean, it sounded wonderful, but my wife, yeah, my wife, his wife, my mother said no, I'm not leaving West Yorkshire.
- Well, when I was in office I had a colleague who really delved into this because Yorkshire was my constituency and she was also an MEP for Yorkshire as well.
- Savile was brought in as a suspect in the Yorkshire Ripper killings, the sex workers.
- So that course was about a month full time up at Catterick in North Yorkshire.
Examples
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I was visiting Yorkshire for the first time in my life.
Fiction book (1996) -
Growing municipal areas were without representation: Rutland had more MPs in Parliament than the whole of Yorkshire.
Academic text (2010) -
Anyway, you love Yorkshire so much; it's where you grew up.
Fiction book (1996) -
A very good example is the town of Richmond in North Yorkshire, which has been quite well studied.
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Unemployment rates are currently at 6.7% in the Northeast and 6% in Yorkshire.
Academic text (2010) -
That work starts today, but I'm confident we will see devolution coming to Yorkshire in the years ahead.
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I bring my lads from Whitby, North Yorkshire.
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The carol singing in South Yorkshire may be unrivaled, but it is not unique.
Academic text (1990) -
James Habersham (1712-1775) was born in Yorkshire, England, in January 1712.
Academic text (2009) -
Reeves immigrated to the United States from his native Yorkshire in 1978 and eventually settled in Philadelphia.
Compounds
A county in northern England that includes the cities Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, and Barnsley
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Yorkshire comes from two parts: York, an old name for the town that once meant 'wild boar settlement', and -shire, an old word for 'county' or 'district'. That's why Yorkshire means 'the county of York'.