Definition of South Yorkshire

1. Noun. A metropolitan county in northern England.

Generic synonyms: County
Group relationships: England
Terms within: Sheffield

Definition of South Yorkshire

1. Proper noun. (''from 1974'') A metropolitan county in the north east of England comprising the southern part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of South Yorkshire

South Shetland Islands
South Shields
South Slavic
South Sudan
South Sudanese
South Sulawesi
South Sumatra
South Tarawa
South Temperate Zone
South Tibet
South Tyrol
South Vietnam
South Wales
South West Africa
South Yemen
South Yorkshire (current term)
South of Market
Southampton
Southampton Water
Southcottian
Southcottians
Southdown
Southdowns
Southeast
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asian
Southeast Sulawesi
Southern
Southern Altai

Literary usage of South Yorkshire

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"[Foss'g Lives of the Judges ; Hunter's South Yorkshire, i. 367 ; Burke's Landed Gentry.] JMR FOUNTAINHALL, LORD (1646-1722). ..."

2. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"The word for she is hoo in south Lancashire, north Derby, and Cheshire, and shoo in south Yorkshire. The definite article south of Cheshire, Derby, ..."

3. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1906)
"... to authorise the construction of a railway and works by the South Yorkshire Line Joint Committee, and to revive and extend the powers for the compulsory ..."

4. The Exchequer Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Gordon (1854)
"THE South Yorkshire RAILWAY AND RIVER DUN COMPANY. A bond fide JL HIS was a proceeding in error upon the judgment of deed was exe- the Court of Exchequer, ..."

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