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YORK
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I. (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
Synonyms:
House of York; York
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
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:
A finding associated with a patient based on the functional classification developed by the New York Heart Association (NYHA), for categorizing patients with defined or presumed cardiac disease.
(New York Heart Association Class, NCI Thesaurus)
The two most severe classes of cardiac dysfunction according to a classification system developed by the New York Heart Association to grade cardiovascular function and disability.
(New York Heart Association Class III/IV, NCI Thesaurus)
“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)
"Sorry you could find nothing better to read. I write that rubbish because it sells, and ordinary people like it. Are you going to New York this winter?"
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A gold watch by Hudson, of New York, and a chain which held a stylographic pen, lay among the bones.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Randall gang were arrested in New York this morning.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If Lord Avon had not given me a cast in his carriage, I had never got my flowers back to my lodgings in York Street, Westminster.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
NICHD researchers and their colleagues analyzed data from the Upstate KIDS Study, originally undertaken to follow the development of children conceived after infertility treatments and born in New York State from 2008 to 2010.
(High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy, National Institutes of Health)
Aye, there she comes, continued Mrs. Bennet, looking as unconcerned as may be, and caring no more for us than if we were at York, provided she can have her own way.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Since 2005, researchers have enrolled 560 children from 4 cities: Baltimore, Boston, New York, and St. Louis.
(Infant Exposure to Allergens May Help Prevent Wheezing, NIH)
