COUNTY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government

Example:

the county has a population of 12,345 people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("county" is a kind of...):

part; region (the extended spatial location of something)

Meronyms (parts of "county"):

county courthouse; county seat (the town or city that is the seat of government for a county)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "county"):

Isle of Wight; Wight (an isle and county of southern England in the English Channel)

Instance hyponyms:

Sussex (a county in southern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that was captured by Wessex in the 9th century)

Northamptonshire (a county is central England)

South Yorkshire; West Yorkshire (a metropolitan county in northern England)

North Yorkshire (a county in northern England)

Surrey (a county in southeastern England on the Thames)

Northumberland (the northernmost county of England; has many Roman remains (including Hadrian's Wall))

Lincolnshire (an agricultural county of eastern England on the North Sea)

Leicester; Leicestershire (a largely agricultural county in central England)

West Sussex; East Sussex (a county in southern England on the English Channel)

Somerset (a county in southwestern England on the Bristol Channel)

Kent (a county in southeastern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it was the first to be colonized by the Romans)

Hertfordshire (a county in southern England)

Hampshire (a county of southern England on the English Channel)

Gloucestershire (a county in southwestern England in the lower Severn valley)

Essex (a county in southeastern England on the North Sea and the Thames estuary)

Devon; Devonshire (a county in southwestern England)

Cumbria (a county of northwestern England)

Cornwall (a hilly county in southwestern England)

Berkshire (a county in southern England)

Avon (a county in southwestern England)

Home Counties (the English counties surrounding London into which Greater London has expanded)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(United States) the largest administrative district within a state

Example:

the county plans to build a new road

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("county" is a kind of...):

administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Credits

Context examples:

“I never heard any county but Surry called so.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A man might represent the county with such an estate; a man might escape a profession and represent the county.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"A fortnight!" she repeated, surprised at his being so long in the same county with Elinor without seeing her before.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“But surely,” said she, “I may enter his county with impunity, and rob it of a few petrified spars without his perceiving me.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Even Frederick, my eldest son, you see, who will perhaps inherit as considerable a landed property as any private man in the county, has his profession.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The study consisted of carrying out math and verbal testing of 25,000 people living in 162 counties in China and then comparing those results with air pollution conditions.

(Pollution Linked to Significant Decline in Human Cognition, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The NCI's Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1950-94, shows the geographic patterns of cancer death rates in over 3,000 counties across the country over more than four decades.

(Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, NCI Thesaurus)

Relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county used by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for purposes of population enumeration.

(Census Tract, NCI Thesaurus)

The county police are utterly at fault, said he, but perhaps your wider experience has suggested some conceivable explanation.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These maps display cancer mortality data by county and state economic regions across the country.