home counties
home counties is the plural of home county.
Meaning of home county
Noun
home county (plural home counties)
- Any of the counties that surround London in the south-east of England.
- Owing to the comparative nearness to London and populous home county centres, road competition is keen for goods as well as summer passenger business.1940 July, R. A. H. Weight, “Hastings—An Interesting Traffic Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 391
Noun capitalized: Home Counties
Home Counties pl (plural only)
- A geographic area consisting of the counties surrounding London, England.
- From Caro, the British colonel's wife, now ferrying around anti-tear gas solvent kits and bottled water, her toenails painted a riot of different colors, her posh Home Counties diction already absorbing the shortened vowels of our southern African dialect.2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
Questions about home counties
- What does home counties mean?
- Home counties means a geographic area consisting of the counties surrounding London, England.
- What is home counties the plural of?
- Home counties is the plural of home county.
- What part of speech is home counties?
- Home counties is a noun.
Words near home counties in the dictionary
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