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Black Country

Black Country proper noun: an area of West Midlands, England, traditionally seen as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.

Proper noun

the Black Country

  1. An area of West Midlands, England, traditionally seen as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
    • I was on a very loose end when one day, outside the Secretariat, as they call it, I ran up against a man called Fraser whom I'd known building a viaduct or something of that sort in the Black Country.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
    • […] and with the two promised Sheffielders, Driver Elliott and Fireman Lewis, we were soon on our way over the most unapproachably dreary region of the whole run, scarcely to be paralleled in the Black Country itself.1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 82

Origin of Black Country

From the smoke and heavy industry of the area.

Questions about Black Country

What does Black Country mean?
Black Country means an area of West Midlands, England, traditionally seen as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
What part of speech is Black Country?
Black Country is a proper noun.

Words near Black Country in the dictionary

  1. black comedy
  2. black copper
  3. black coral
  4. black corals
  5. black cotton soil
  6. Black Country
  7. black cow
  8. black cows
  9. black crake
  10. black crakes
  11. black crappie

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