Definitions for county

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county coun·ty

Spelling: [koun-tee]

IPA: /ˈkaʊn ti/

County is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in county (cnotuy).

Definitions for county

noun

1. the largest administrative division of a U.S. state:
2. one of the chief administrative divisions of a country or state, as in Great Britain and Ireland.
3. one of the larger divisions for purposes of local administration, as in Canada and New Zealand.
4. the territory of a county, especially its rural areas:
5. the inhabitants of a county:
6. the domain of a count or earl.
7. count2 .

Origin of county

1250-1300; Middle English counte Anglo-French counté, Old French cunté, conte Late Latin comitātus imperial seat, office of a comes (see count²), equivale

Examples for county

Will Christian pharmacists, county clerks, florists, and for-profit wedding chapels really withdraw from society, as you describe?

Were I a man, she should suppose I was aiming to carry the county—Popularity!

Reflecting, by your ostentation, upon all the ladies in the county, who do not as you do.

Mr. Burke, don't you know from what county of fairyland Helen hails?

This creates a fierce political competition between city and county governments and within county governments.

After all, not every county medical examiner can spot CTE on microscopic slides.

"The jail of the county is at Welland, the county town," replied the constable.

We are and always have been a country of city and county, downtowns and small towns.

There is something irrevocable-feeling about couples tying the knot on the steps of the county courthouse.

The station for which we are bound is Elgin, the county town of Morayshire.