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Definition of County town
1. Noun. The town or city that is the seat of government for a shire.
Group relationships: Shire
Generic synonyms: Seat
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Definition of County town
1. Noun. The administrative town of a county in Ireland or the United Kingdom. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of County Town
Literary usage of County town
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Code of Law, Practice and Forms for Justices' and Other Inferior Courts in by Curtis Hillyer (1912)
"county; Coalinga, Fresno county; Colfax, Placer county; town of Colusa, Colusa
county; Compton, Los Angeles county; town of Concord, Contra Costa county; ..."
2. Pennsylvania Archives by Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, George Edward Reed, Pennsylvania State Library, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban (1854)
"county town OF WESTMORELAND Co., 1783. Hannas Town, August 23d, 1783. Sir, We
Received your kind favour of the 24th, April last & are ranch Obliged to you ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"... and no others, except such as are authorized by special act of the General
Assembly: provided, however, that any county, town or city wherein the sale ..."
4. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of public instruction, Pennsylvania State library, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania State Library (1854)
"county town OF WESTMORELAND Co., 1783. Hannas Town, August 23d, 1783. Sir, ,We
Received your kind favour of the 24th, April last & are much Obliged to you ..."
5. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888)
"... I also expressed the pleasure with which I had found that our worthy friend
Langton was highly esteemed in his own county town. To Dr. SAMUEL JOHNSON. ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"He began to look for external work in the immediate present and, for the future,
he dreamed dreams. He collected money and built a church in the county town ..."
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