Suffolk

[suhf-uhk]

noun

1. a county in E England. 1,470 sq. mi. (3,805 sq. km).

2. one of an English breed of sheep having a black face and legs, noted for mutton of high quality.

3. one of an English breed of chestnut draft horses having a deep body and short legs.

4. one of an English breed of small, black hogs.

5. a city in SE Virginia.

Suffolk

¹

/ ˈsʌfək /

noun

1. a county of SE England, on the North Sea: its coast is flat and marshy, indented by broad tidal estuaries. Administrative centre: Ipswich. Pop: 678 100 (2003 est). Area: 3800 sq km (1467 sq miles)

Suffolk

²

/ ˈsʌfək /

noun

1. a black-faced breed of sheep

Example Sentences

This includes Rhiannon Lawson, from Suffolk, who told the BBC seeing those two blue lines on her pregnancy test filled her and her partner Mike "full of hope".

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Georgia Scarff, 16, from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, died from a severe head injury after being hit by a lorry on a local road in the early hours of 15 April 2024, during the Easter holidays.

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He skipped his college graduation from Suffolk University in Boston last year to move to San Francisco—the kind of city where “brilliant misfits have a place,” he said—and founded an AI finance startup.

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"Well, I pay the rent a bit better than I used to," he surmises, "But I'm in the same house wearing the same old jumper," he adds, before revealing his one big extravagance – planting 2,000 trees in Suffolk.

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As a child, Harry Chaervey, 22, from Brandeston, Suffolk, was diagnosed with epilepsy and cerebral palsy, a condition that affects movement and co-ordination.

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