YORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does York mean? 

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

1. the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• YORK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

House of York; York

Hypernyms ("York" is a kind of...):

dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)

royal family; royal house; royal line; royalty (royal persons collectively)

Meronyms (members of "York"):

Richard III (King of England from 1483 to 1485; seized the throne from his nephew Edward V who was confined to the Tower of London and murdered; his reign ended when he was defeated by Henry Tudor (later Henry VII) at the battle of Bosworth Field (1452-1485))

 Context examples 

This was four years ago, and we have been in New York ever since.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I would undertake for five pounds to drive it to York and back again, without losing a nail.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Everyone is talking about the Coronavirus here in New York, along with the need to wash hands a lot during the day.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was short and thin, and outside was printed the address of The New York Outview.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The study covered relatively few patients by scientific standards, and David Albertini of the Center for Human Reproduction in New York has suggested the cells may not actually be freshly grown.

(Chemotherapy cocktail may cause adult women to grow new egg cells, Wikinews)

More than 1,500 people died when the vessel sank partway between Southampton, England and New York, United States.

(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)

In 2009, a team led by Dr. Joseph LeDoux of New York University (NYU) developed a way to erase a fear memory in rats without using drugs.

(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)

The impact is tremendous,'' said Sparano, of Montefiore Medical Center in New York.

(Study: Many Breast Cancer Patients Can Skip Chemo, VOA)

Terminology associated with the New York Heart Association class responses codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM New York Heart Association Class Responses Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

A terminology codelist based on the functional classification developed by the New York Heart Association (NYHA), for categorizing patients with defined or presumed cardiac disease.

(CDISC SDTM New York Heart Association Class Responses Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)