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Definition of Northumberland
1. Noun. The northernmost county of England; has many Roman remains (including Hadrian's Wall).
Definition of Northumberland
1. Proper noun. The most northerly county of England bordered by County Durham, Cumberland, Scotland and the North Sea. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Northumberland
Literary usage of Northumberland
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1906)
"Art. V.—Northumberland. A History of Northumberland. Issued under the direction
of the Northumberland County History Committee. Vols l-vn. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"Northumberland vault in Westminster Abbey on 7 Dec. lie was unmarried. ...
Both Northumberland and Bute were members of the king's private junto, ..."
3. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution by David Hume (1858)
"The obligations which Henry had owed to Northumberland, were of a kind the most
likely to produce ingratitude on the one side, and discontent on the other. ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Still both he and his two successors had to fight against endless revolts and
rival kings in Northumberland. The Danish land was won and lost and won back ..."
5. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1877)
"At last the seventh prince who bore that title, Oswiu of Death of Northumberland,
checked him in his last invasion, and gjj.1 slew him in the battle of ..."
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