Newport News
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5.2
- proper noun
- /ˈnjuːpɔrt nuːz/
- Sorely needed supplies arrived today at Newport News, where forces led by Major Butler have been encamped for months.
- Newport News, Virginia
Examples
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MacMurray said making the trip over from Newport News to support the Transportation Museum was worth it: "We like going places for a good cause."
Blog text (2) -
How to reach Williamsburg -- by air: Newport News/Williamsburg Airport
Academic text (1995) -
Fort Eustis, Newport News, Virginia.
Blog text (22) -
Currently being assembled in Newport News, Virginia, the Ford-class will replace the Nimitz-class carriers and will include an array of new technology.
Blog text (22) -
The collection contains a scrapbook with photographs and newspaper clippings regarding the launch of the City of Birmingham ship from Newport News, Virginia, on August 30, 1930.
Academic text (2010) -
An inner bottom unit of the Ford is hoisted by crane at Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding in Newport News on January 4, 2008.
Blog text (22) -
I live in the 7-city group of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Newport News, Hampton, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach.
Blog text (2) -
Within minutes of Williamsburg are Jamestown, Yorktown, Busch Gardens, Water Country USA, Williamsburg Winery, Norfolk, and Newport News.
Academic text (1995) -
PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): "And Miriam Took a Timbrel," stained-glass window by Marsha Maurer in Temple Sinai, Newport News, Virginia.
Academic text (1995) -
Samuel Brown, a middle school teacher in Newport News, got home around 4:30 p.m.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Newport + News
This is a fixed proper name for a specific city; its referent (a port city in Virginia) is arbitrary and not compositionally derived from the parts. A B1 learner who knows the words might read it as 'news about a new port' or a place called Newport, but would not reliably infer the exact meaning or that it denotes that particular city without prior exposure or world knowledge.
Etymology
Newport News may be named for the English sea captain Christopher Newport. One popular story says sailors called the place a 'new port' and talked about the News the ships brought, so the two words stuck together as the city's name.