Newmarket

Meanings

proper noun

A market town and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in Forest Heath district, with a famous racecourse (OS grid ref TL6463).
A hamlet in Clay Cross parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3863).
A hamlet in Nailsworth parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST8399).
A settlement just north of Stornoway, Western Isles council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NB4235).
A town in north-west County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref R 3107).
A townland in County Kilkenny, Ireland.
A town in Ontario, Canada.
A ghost town in Marion County, Missouri, United States.
A town and census-designated place therein, in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, north-west of the city centre.
An inner suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.

nounNewmarket (countable and uncountable, plural Newmarkets)

countableA long, close-fitting cloak.
They delight in blue frock-coats and grass-green Newmarkets, and white hats with mourning-bands.
1864, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple bar, volume 11, page 484
uncountableA card game in which players try to play their cards in a sequence selected by cards from a second deck.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna 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 their 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

Similar

Michigan Chicago boodle stops

Broader

card game cards

Also see

boodle chicago michigan

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.