Definitions for countship

countship count·ship

Spelling: [kount-ship]
IPA: /ˈkaʊnt ʃɪp/

Countship is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 506 anagrams from letters in countship (chinopstu).

Definitions for countship

noun

  1. the rank or position of a count.
  2. the territory or jurisdiction of a count.

Origin of countship

First recorded in 1695-1705; count2 + -ship

Examples for countship

Further, that the camp-captains of this community be citizens or inhabitants of the countship.

If it please the king to give me the countship of Perigord, I shall be his forever.

It belonged to the counts of Mrs, and was annexed to Prussia, with the countship, in 1702.

Now is the time for you to employ all your five natural wits to put the duchy and countship of Burgundy in my hands.

For that good service he had from the Duke the countship of Sta.

The King of Navarre used much the same language in his countship of Evreux.

In 1286 Joan sold the countship of Chartres to the king of France.

His countship was Napoleonic, but he was always an opponent of the emperor's policy.

"I should like to meet his countship," said I energetically.

Dammartin is historically important as the seat of a countship of which the holders played a considerable part in French history.

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