Newcastle Synonyms

no͝okăsəl, nyo͝o-
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)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. newcastle-upon-tyne

Words Related to Newcastle

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. sunderland
  2. leeds
  3. liverpool
  4. manchester
  5. bradford
  6. nottingham
  7. sheffield
  8. huddersfield
  9. doncaster
  10. gateshead
  11. cardiff
  12. leicester

Newcastle Sentence Examples

  • In 1570, 200,000 persons died in Moscow and the neighbourhood, in 1572, 50,000 at Lyons; in 1568 and 1574 plague was at Edinburgh, and in 1570 at Newcastle.

  • In this and subsequent years the disease was widely diffused in England - for instance, Oxford, Derbyshire, Newcastle.

  • The same year 7000 out of 20,000 inhabitants of Newcastle died of plague; in 2635 it was at Hull.

  • For this period see Index to Remembrancia in Archives of City of London 1579-1664 (London, 2878); Richardson, Plague and Pestilence in North of England (Newcastle, 1852).

  • Places near London were earliest affected, as Brentford, Greenwich, Deptford; but in July or August 1665 it was already in Southampton, Sunderland, Newcastle, &c. A wider distribution occurred in the next year.

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