county
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English countee, counte, conte, from Anglo-Norman counté, Old French conté (French comté), from Latin comitātus (“jurisdiction of a count”), from comes (“count, earl”). Cognate with Spanish condado (“county”) and Italian contea (“county”). Doublet of comitatus, borrowed directly from Latin. Mostly displaced native Old English sċīr, whence Modern English shire.
Inflected forms:
form: counties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more county
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most county
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The land ruled by a count or a countess.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: The first of the principalities of the Low Countries to take clear shape was the county of Flanders.
gloss: An administrative or geographical region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and 47 of the 50 United States (excluding Alaska, Connecticut, and Louisiana).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Entire states such as California, Illinois and New York are now sanctuaries, as well as major cities and counties such as Fairfax, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties and the District of Columbia in the capital region, according to the list. […] FAIR says the county is a sanctuary because it tells police not to ask about immigration status even during an arrest.
gloss: A definitive geographic region, without direct administrative functions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: traditional county
gloss: A jail operated by a county government.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
uncountable
examples: He can't come; he's up in the county for agg assault.
Okay gentlemen, you've both been to county before, I'm sure. Here it comes.
gloss: Characteristic of a ‘county family’; representative of the gentry or aristocracy of a county.
pos: adj
examples: Now, in the district around Chipping Carby, the County Families are very County indeed, few more so.
She was a tall girl and county, with Hilary's walk: she seemed to topple even when she sat.
The other two, like many of her characters, have fallen on harder times: Joan's family has recently lost her father, a small flour-mill owner -- described by a supporter as more "county" than the upstart newcomers who covet their property ...
Susan Dean realises that her secretary, Eleanor Grantly, is much more county than she ever will be, because Eleanor knows all the Barsetshire family connections and is connected herself.
Synonyms: xian
Related words: count
barony
bishopric
countdom
duchy
earldom
kingdom
march
margravate
margraviate
marquesate
marquessate
marquisate
nobility
parish
principality
regality
royalty
shire
viscountcy
viscounty
Derived words: 32-county
another county heard from
ceremonial county
city and county
collar county
Countian
county at large
county borough
county boundary
county brownie
county council
county court
county cricket
county crop
county fair
county family
county farm
County Gates
countyhood
countyism
county jail
county-level city
county-level municipality
countylike
county line
county palatinate
county palatine
county seat
county town
countywide
God's own county
historic county
Home Counties
home county
intercounty
intracounty
metropolitan county
multicounty
noncounty
Norfolk County
Orangeburg County
preserved county
regional county municipality
registration county
Sharkey County
Six Counties
subcounty
traditional county
tricounty
Twenty-Six Counties
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