Definition of Counties

1. Noun. (plural of county) ¹

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Definition of Counties

1. county [n] - See also: county

Lexicographical Neighbors of Counties

counterwork
counterworked
counterworker
counterworkers
counterworking
counterworks
counterworld
counterworlds
countess
countesses
countest
counteth
counthry
countian
countians
counties (current term)
countification
countified
countifies
countify
countifying
counting
counting-out game
counting angels on pinheads
counting coup
counting measure
counting number
counting numbers

Literary usage of Counties

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by Ohio State Geologist, Ohio Division of Geological Survey (1912)
"The southern half of Ashtabula and Trumbull counties is in the ... That part of the two counties now under consideration which lies to the south and west of ..."

2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1900)
"THE counties OF NEW ENGLAND The division of the counties in America has ... The limits of the counties are arbitrarily laid down, and the various districts ..."

3. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1906)
"Petrographic description of the rocks is given below under the description of the individual areas, which are taken up by counties. ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"If this was the case in Yorkshire, where the number of electors was large, the standard of electoral purity in other counties, where the number of electors ..."

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