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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Port city located in southeastern Virginia on the Elizabeth River at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay; headquarters of the Atlantic fleet of the United States Navy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
Holonyms ("Norfolk" is a part of...):
Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)
Context examples:
I kep it from her arter I heerd on 't, said Mr. Peggotty, going on nigh a year. We was living then in a solitary place, but among the beautifullest trees, and with the roses a-covering our Beein to the roof. Theer come along one day, when I was out a-working on the land, a traveller from our own Norfolk or Suffolk in England (I doen't rightly mind which), and of course we took him in, and giv him to eat and drink, and made him welcome.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He was a hearty, full-blooded fellow, full of spirits and energy, the very opposite to me in most respects, but we had some subjects in common, and it was a bond of union when I found that he was as friendless as I. Finally, he invited me down to his father’s place at Donnithorpe, in Norfolk, and I accepted his hospitality for a month of the long vacation.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I think you will fit up a theatre at your house in Norfolk.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
If these conditions are too hard, then go back to Norfolk, and leave me to the lonely life in which you found me.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“And if Mr. Steerforth ever comes into Norfolk or Suffolk, Mr. Peggotty,” I said, “while I am there, you may depend upon it I shall bring him to Yarmouth, if he will let me, to see your house. You never saw such a good house, Steerforth. It's made out of a boat!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I have a great mind to go back into Norfolk directly, and put everything at once on such a footing as cannot be afterwards swerved from.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
We were quietly married at a registry office, and we returned to Norfolk a wedded couple.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“From Bath, Norfolk, London, York, wherever I may be,” said he; “I will attend you from any place in England, at an hour's notice.”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Dear, dear, one of the oldest families in the county of Norfolk, and one of the most honoured.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The son had a good estate in Norfolk, the daughter twenty thousand pounds.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
