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York

Syllabification: (York)
Pronunciation: /yôrk/

Definition of York
  • 1a city in northern England, on the Ouse River; population 136,900 (est. 2009).
  • 2a commercial and industrial city in southeastern Pennsylvania; population 40,097 (est. 2008).
  • 3the southwestern tip of Hayes Peninsula, on Baffin Bay in Greenland. It served as a base for US explorer Robert E. Peary’s polar expedition. A 100-ton meteorite found here was brought to the US by Peary.

Origin:

Danish Jorvik

York in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of York in the British & World English dictionary