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UK
/kˈaʊnti/
]
[ US /ˈkaʊni, ˈkaʊnti/ ]
[ US /ˈkaʊni, ˈkaʊnti/ ]
NOUN
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(United States) the largest administrative district within a state
the county plans to build a new road -
(United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government
the county has a population of 12,345 people
How To Use county In A Sentence
- In Katine sub-county we hear about rape, defilement and child abuse, mostly of girls.
- Northampton was another elegant county town and regional market centre and was known far and wide for its horse fairs.
- Paul took up the post of County Accountant in the mid-Seventies, leaving for a short spell, only to return to take up the post of Finance Officer.
- Rob was late, as usual, with a sports report on an intercounty shinty game. A Small Death in the Great Glen
- No sooner had he his feet under the table, though, than he was being ballyragged at county board meetings by suits who knew better than he who should be playing.
- Between 1921 and 1925 he began to develop new colemanite holdings in Clark County, Nevada.
- She owns a home in Montgomery County, Md., a market where home values have been appreciating rapidly.
- ‘They were criss-crossing the county to deliver the news.
- After a two-hour meeting, a number of Kilkenny county councillors present undertook to raise the matter at their next Council meeting.
- Thomas Cowell of York County in 1680, and Patrick Napier twice phlebotomized 'Allen Jarves, deceased, in the cure of a cancer of his mouth.' Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699