Newark

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UK/ˈnjuːək/US/ˈnuːəɹk/US/nʊəɹk/US/ˈnuːɑːɹk/

proper noun

A civil parish and town with a town council in Nottinghamshire, England.

Similar
Newark-on-Trent
OriginOld English nīewe →
CommonScrabble 13
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. Any of several places:
    1. A civil parish and town with a town council in Nottinghamshire, England.

      Synonyms: Newark-on-Trent

    2. A suburb of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, formerly a hamlet in the parish of Saint Mary the Virgin in the Soke of Peterborough (OS grid ref TF2100).
    3. A small city in Independence County, Arkansas.
    4. A city in Alameda County, California.
    5. A city in New Castle County, Delaware.
    6. A village in Kendall County, Illinois.
    7. An unincorporated community in Beech Creek Township, Greene County, Indiana.
    8. A census-designated place in Worcester County, Maryland.
    9. A village in Knox County, Missouri.
    10. An unincorporated community in Kearney County, Nebraska.
    11. A city, the county seat of Essex County, New Jersey, the largest city in the US with this name.

      Earlier on Friday, Watson Coleman posted on social media: "We're at Delaney Hall, an ICE prison in Newark that opened without permission from the city & in violation of local ordinances.

      2025 May 9, Max Matza, “New Jersey mayor arrested in protest at migrant centre”, in BBC, archived from the original on 15 May 2025
    12. An international airport in Essex County, New Jersey.
    13. A village in Wayne County, New York.
    14. A city, the county seat of Licking County, Ohio.
    15. An unincorporated community in Marshall County, South Dakota.
    16. A small city in Tarrant County and Wise County, Texas.
    17. A small town in Caledonia County, Vermont.
    18. An unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia.
    19. A town in Rock County, Wisconsin.

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounA civil parish and town with a town council in Nottinghamshire, England.

Similar
Newark-on-Trent
Also see
newark-on-trent

Origin

  1. Old Englishnīewe“new”
  2. EnglishNewark

Probably from Old English nīewe (“new”) + weorc (“work”). In this case, a perhaps more accurate sense of "work" would be that of a building, as an example of a work of labor. It appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Newerche.

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Cite this entry
APA

Newark. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Newark

MLA

“Newark.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Newark. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Newark,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Newark.

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