Meanings
- 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 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.
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
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
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
The cloak and card game are named after the English town.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Newmarket. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Newmarket
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