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Definition of Counties
1. county [n] - See also: county
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counties
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 ..."