American English pronunciation
How to pronounce yorkshire
IPA transcription: ['jɔɹkʃɚ]
Pronunciation variants: ['jɔɹkʃɚ]['jɚkʃɚ]
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Noun
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a former large county in northern England; in 1974 it was divided into three smaller counties
Usage examples
- Poskitt was educated at Terrington Hall School, Terrington, North Yorkshire and Collingwood College, Durham.
- Dresser was born in Glasgow, Scotland, of a Yorkshire family.
- Yorkshire won by five wickets.
- It is on the Sykes Churches Trail devised by the East Yorkshire Churches Group.
- Lawrence was born and brought up in Halifax, West Yorkshire.
- Details are included in the civil parish of Shipton, North Yorkshire.
- The inventor of cat's eyes was Percy Shaw of Boothtown, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.
- Ida Ward was the eighth child of a Yorkshire wool merchant.
- Yorkshire is my county.
- The village is just south of the border with North Yorkshire.