county seat
county seat noun: the city in which the offices of county government are located.
Noun
county seat (plural county seats)
- The city in which the offices of county government are located.
- Lawrence is the county seat of Douglas County.
- Some ten thousand peasants in Hsichuan county in Honan province used hoes, scythes, wooden poles, etc. as weapons and took over the county seat. They expanded their forces and held areas in two neighboring counties. The CC sent a force of one hundred thousand troops and fought the peasants for...1960, Ching-wen Chow, “The Awakening of the Chinese People”, in Lai Ming, transl., edited by Lai Ming, Ten Years of Storm: The True Story of the Communist Regime in China, New York: Holt, Rinehart...
- Synonyms:
- shire town
county seat meaning in Vietnamese
county seat in Vietnamese
- city in which the offices of county government are located
- quận lỵ, quận lị
Synonyms of county seat
Forms of county seat
| plural | county seats |
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Origin of county seat
Compound of county + seat.
Questions about county seat
- What does county seat mean?
- County seat means the city in which the offices of county government are located.
- What is county seat in Vietnamese?
- County seat in Vietnamese is quận lỵ, quận lị. See County seat meaning in Vietnamese.
- What part of speech is county seat?
- County seat is a noun.
- What is the plural of county seat?
- The plural of county seat is county seats.
Words near county seat in the dictionary
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