new scotland yard

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   the detective department of the metropolitan police force of London

   SynonymsScotland Yard

   Broaderpolice

Questions about new scotland yard

What does new scotland yard mean?

new scotland yard means "the detective department of the metropolitan police force of London".

What is another word for new scotland yard?

Close synonyms include Scotland Yard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is new scotland yard a common word?

new scotland yard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.