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Definition of Somerset

1. Noun. A county in southwestern England on the Bristol Channel.

2. Noun. An acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return.

Definition of Somerset

1. Proper noun. A maritime county in the west of England bordered by Gloucestershire, Bristol, Wiltshire, Dorset, Devon, the Severn estuary and the Bristol channel. ¹

2. Noun. (archaic spelling of somersault) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Somerset

1. to roll the body in a complete circle, head over heels [v -SETED, -SETING, -SETS or -SETTED, -SETTING, -SETS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Somerset

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Somals Somasian Somateria Somerset (current term) Somerset Maugham Somersetshire Somerville Somethingism Somme Somme River

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Literary usage of Somerset

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

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"I. Pole, Hastings, Somerset, Fitzroy, and Stanhope. - Pole and Hastings. ... Pole, Hastings, and Somerset. * Not the representative of the family himself, ..."

2. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1910)
"Allen (FJ) The classification of the Somerset church towers. ... Exchequer lay subsidies '52 which is a tax roll for Somerset of the first year of Edward 3. ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"The Victoria County History: Somerset. Edited by William Page, FSA Vols I and II. ... Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological Society, 1849- 1907. 3. ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1908)
"The Victoria County History: Somerset, Edited by William Page, FSA Vols i and n. ... Proceedings of the Somerset Record Society, 1887-1906. 4. ..."

5. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"Northampton having died in this year, Suffolk was appointed Treasurer, and his son-in-law, Somerset, Lord Chamberlain. The Spanish alliance was now taken up ..."

6. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Northampton having died in this year, Suffolk was appointed Treasurer, and his son-in-law, Somerset, Lord Chamberlain. The Spanish alliance was now taken up ..."

7. The Lancet (1842)
"Can Lord G BANVILLE Somerset, who is a person of ability, ... Lord GRANVILLE Somerset made one assertion, which is sufficiently amusing to be quoted. ..."

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