Nouns in english starting with N

• newburgh — Noun – English ～ a town on the Hudson River in New York; in 1782 and 1783 it was George Washington's headquarters
• newcastle — Noun – English ～ a port city in northeastern England on the River Tyne; a center for coal exports (giving rise to the expression `carry coals to Newcastle' meaning to do something unnecessary)
• Newcastle disease — Noun – English ～ disease of domestic fowl and other birds
• newcomb — Noun – English ～ United States astronomer (1835-1909)
• newcomer — Noun – English ～ any new participant in some activity
• newcomer — Noun – English ～ a recent arrival; "he's a newcomer to Boston"
• newel — Noun – English ～ the central pillar of a circular staircase
• newel — Noun – English ～ the post at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs; it supports the handrail
• newfoundland — Noun – English ～ a breed of very large heavy dogs with a thick coarse usually black coat; highly intelligent dogs and vigorous swimmers; developed in Newfoundland
• Newfoundland dwarf birch — Noun – English ～ small shrub of colder parts of North America and Greenland
• Newfoundland and Labrador — Noun – English ～ a Canadian province on the island of Newfoundland and on the mainland along the coast of the Labrador Sea; became Canada's 10th province in 1949
• Newfoundland — Noun – English ～ an island in the north Atlantic
• Newfoundland dog — Noun – English ～ a breed of very large heavy dogs with a thick coarse usually black coat; highly intelligent dogs and vigorous swimmers; developed in Newfoundland
• newgate — Noun – English ～ a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780; a new prison was built on the same spot but was torn down in 1902
• newlywed — Noun – English ～ someone recently married
• Newman — Noun – English ～ English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement; Newman later turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890)
• Newman — Noun – English ～ United States film actor (born in 1925)
• Newmarket — Noun – English ～ a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
• newmarket — Noun – English ～ a long close-fitting coat worn for riding in the 19th century
• newness — Noun – English ～ the quality of being new; the opposite of oldness

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