NORTHUMBERLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Northumberland mean? 

• NORTHUMBERLAND (noun)
  The noun NORTHUMBERLAND has 1 sense:

1. the northernmost county of England; has many Roman remains (including Hadrian's Wall)

  Familiarity information: NORTHUMBERLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHUMBERLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The northernmost county of England; has many Roman remains (including Hadrian's Wall)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

county ((United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government)

Meronyms (parts of "Northumberland"):

Flodden (a hill in Northumberland where the invading Scots were defeated by the English in 1513)

Holonyms ("Northumberland" is a part of...):

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

She and her brother are the only children of an iron-master somewhere up Northumberland way.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This phrase, uttered in my hearing yesterday, would have only conveyed the notion that she was about to be removed to Northumberland, to her own home.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then, of the younger men, Sir Thomas Percy of Northumberland, Sir Thomas Wake of Yorkshire, and Sir William Beauchamp of Gloucestershire, were finally selected to uphold the honor of England.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I had seen in the duplicate bill.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He earns his living partly as interpreter in the law courts and partly by acting as guide to any wealthy Orientals who may visit the Northumberland Avenue hotels.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sometimes I think I am in Northumberland, and that the noises I hear round me are the bubbling of a little brook which runs through Deepden, near our house;—then, when it comes to my turn to reply, I have to be awakened; and having heard nothing of what was read for listening to the visionary brook, I have no answer ready.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)