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Definition of Hampshire
1. Noun. A county of southern England on the English Channel.
2. Noun. British breed of hornless dark-faced domestic sheep.
Definition of Hampshire
1. Proper noun. A maritime county in the south of England bordered by Berkshire, Surrey, Sussex, Dorset, Wiltshire and the English Channel; also includes the Isle of Wight. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hampshire
Literary usage of Hampshire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1901)
"CHAPTER X. BETWEEN hampshire AND LONDON. IR PITT CRAWLEY had done more than repair
fences and restore dilapidated lodges on the Queen's Crawley estate. ..."
2. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"CHAPTER XXXVIII OF THE HOME-COMING TO hampshire IT was a bright July morning four
months after that fatal fight in the Spanish barranca. ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The chief events connected with hampshire in the Civil War of the lyth century
were the gallant resistance of the cavalier garrisons at Winchester and ..."
4. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1905)
"TO THE QUARTER-MASTERS OP FREDERICK, hampshire AND BERKELEY. RICHMOND, December
24, 1780. SIR,—A detachment of the militia of the county of Frederick being ..."
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