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Definition of Home Counties
1. Noun. The English counties surrounding London into which Greater London has expanded.
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Member holonyms: Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey
Definition of Home Counties
1. Noun. All the English counties surrounding London ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Home Counties
Literary usage of Home Counties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dickens Country by Frederic George Kitton (1905)
"IN THE MIDLANDS AND Home Counties. THE year 1838, in which Charles Dickens,
accompanied by "Phiz," hazarded that bitter coach-ride to the northern wilds of ..."
2. Society in the Country House by Thomas Hay Sweet Escott (1907)
"CHAPTER XVI THE NEW HOSTS OF THE Home Counties Mr. A. Brassey's Heythrop—" History
Hut "—Mrs. Duncan Stewart's stories—Kingston Lisle and Beckett—Squire ..."
3. The Political and Commercial Works of that Celebrated Writer Charles D by Charles Davenant (1771)
"... according to this calculation, if the 11 home counties, which are but 4d, ...
that the retailers cannot be fo well watched as in the home counties, ..."
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