Newark
/ˈnjuːək/US/ˈnuːəɹk/
Newark proper noun: a civil parish and town with a town council in Nottinghamshire, England.
Proper noun
Newark
- A civil parish and town with a town council in Nottinghamshire, England.
- Synonyms:
- Newark-on-Trent
- 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).
- A small city in Independence County, Arkansas.
- A city in Alameda County, California.
- A city in New Castle County, Delaware.
- A village in Kendall County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Beech Creek Township, Greene County, Indiana.
- A census-designated place in Worcester County, Maryland.
- A village in Knox County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Kearney County, Nebraska.
- 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
- An international airport in Essex County, New Jersey.
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- A village in Wayne County, New York.
- A city, the county seat of Licking County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Marshall County, South Dakota.
- A small city in Tarrant County and Wise County, Texas.
- A small town in Caledonia County, Vermont.
- An unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia.
- A town in Rock County, Wisconsin.
Synonyms of Newark
Origin of Newark
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.
Words formed from Newark
Questions about Newark
- What does Newark mean?
- Newark means a civil parish and town with a town council in Nottinghamshire, England.
- What part of speech is Newark?
- Newark is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Newark?
- Newark is pronounced /ˈnjuːək/ (UK).
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Newark (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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