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Newcastle
[ noo-kas-uhl, -kah-suhl, nyoo- ]
noun
- 1st Duke of. Pelham-Holles, Thomas.
- Also called ··ٱ-ܱ·Dz-ղԱ [noo, -kas-, uh, l-, uh, -pon-, tahyn, -, uh, -pawn-, -kah-s, uh, l-, nyoo, -]. a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, on the Tyne River: shipbuilding; major coal center.
- a seaport in E New South Wales, in SE Australia.
- a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, NE of Toronto, on Lake Ontario.
Newcastle
1/ ˈːˌɑːə /
noun
- a port in SE Australia, in E New South Wales near the mouth of the Hunter River: important industrial centre, with extensive steel, metalworking, engineering, shipbuilding, and chemical industries. It suffered Australia's first recorded fatal earthquake, in 1989. Pop: 279 975 (2001)
Newcastle
2/ ˈːˌɑːə /
noun
- Newcastle, Duke of16931768MEnglishPOLITICS: prime minister Duke of, the title of Thomas Pelham Holles. 1693–1768, English Whig prime minister (1754–56; 1757–62): brother of Henry Pelham
Idioms and Phrases
- carry coals to Newcastle,
- to take something to a place where its kind exists in great quantity.
- to do something wholly unnecessary.
More idioms and phrases containing Newcastle
see carry coals to Newcastle .Example Sentences
Those two losses came in back-to-back away games against Bournemouth and Newcastle in October and November respectively.
Ellie was married in Newcastle on 29 March, the same day the city celebrated Newcastle United's win in the Carabao Cup.
The tree had stood for more than 100 years in a dip on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland before it was felled overnight on 27 September, 2023, Newcastle Crown Court heard.
She first won the Irish Championship in 1899 at the age of 17 and just a week later won the British Championship on the same links at Newcastle, County Down.
Twelve people have been sworn in at Newcastle Crown Court to consider the case against the pair who both deny chopping down the tree on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland in September 2023.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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