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The answer COUNTY has 31 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of county in various dictionaries:
noun - (United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government
noun - (United States) the largest administrative district within a state
An administrative subdivision of a state in the United States.
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Unit of local administration |
Sheriff's domain, typically |
One of 32 for Ireland |
Region of land has no river |
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...A letter from "country" & it becomes this smaller district |
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A territorial division of some countries, forming the chief unit of local administration. |
a territorial division of some countries, forming the chief unit of local administration. |
a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government |
the largest administrative district within a state |
a political division of the UK or Ireland, forming the largest unit of local government, or the largest political division of a state in the US: |
behaving in a way that is typical of rich people with a high social position who live in large houses in the countryside: |
the largest political division of most states in the US: |
The largest administrative division of most states in the United States. |
A territorial division exercising administrative, judicial, and political functions in Great Britain and Ireland. |
The territory under the jurisdiction of a count or earl. |
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A county is a geographical region of a country used for administrative or other purposes, in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French conté or cunté denoting a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a count (earl) or a viscount. The modern French is comté, and its equivalents in other languages are contea, contado, comtat, condado, Grafschaft, graafschap, Gau, etc. (cf. conte, comte, conde, Graf). * When the Normans conquered England, they brought the term with them. The Saxons had already established the districts that became the historic counties of England, calling them shires; many county names derive from the name of the county town (county seat) with the word "shire" added on: for example, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.The Anglo-Saxon terms "earl" and "earldom" were taken as equivalent to the continental terms "count" and "county" under the conquering Normans, and over time the two blended and became equivalent. Further, the later-imported term became a |