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say it: yawrk
york is a noun meaning "the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose". It is pronounced /ˈjɔɹk/ — yawrk. It carries one recorded sense.
the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for york come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.