Suffolk

name

Etymology: From Middle English Suffolk, from Old English Sūþfolc, a compound of sūþ (“south”) + folc (“folk”).

1. A maritime county in the east of England, bordered by Norfolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire and the North Sea.

   “Holonyms: East Anglia < East of England < England < Great Britain, Britain < United Kingdom, UK < Earth, World”

   “Seals are flourishing about 50 miles farther south, too. In 2021, a group of grey seals established the first seal colony in nearby Suffolk and began breeding on a remote shingle beach at Orford Ness, now a National Trust site but once the location for cold war weapons-testing.”

2. A neighbourhood of Andersonstown, West Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref J2870).
3. An independent city in Virginia, United States, formerly in Nansemond County, Virginia.
4. Suffolk County.