a port in SE Australia, in E New South Wales near the mouth of the Hunter River: important industrial centre, with extensive steel, metalworking, engineering, shipbuilding, and chemical industries. It suffered Australia's first recorded fatal earthquake, in 1989. Pop: 279 975 (2001)
Newcastle in British English2
(ˈnjuːˌkɑːsəl)
noun
Duke of, the title of Thomas Pelham Holles. 1693–1768, English Whig prime minister (1754–56; 1757–62): brother of Henry Pelham
Newcastle in American English
(ˈnuˌkæsəl; ˈnjuˌkæsəl; ˈnuˌkɑsəl)
1.
seaport in Tyne and Wear, N England, north of Leeds: county district pop. 260,000
: in full ˈNewˌcastle-upˌon-ˈTyne (ˈnuˌkæsəlˈtaɪn)
2.
city in Staffordshire, WC England: county district pop. 119,000
: in full ˈNewˌcasˌtle-unˈder-Lyme (ˈnuˌkæsəlˈlaɪm)
3.
seaport in E New South Wales, Australia, on the Pacific: pop. 455,000