home county
home county noun: any of the counties that surround London in the south-east of England.
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
- Think home counties, and the sorts of things that come to mind are blue-rinse, golf courses and village halls. This is a stereotype we need to reconsider based on the latest demographic shifts we are seeing in and around London.2017 October 12, Ian Warren, “How the Conservatives lost their home counties heartland”, in The Guardian
Forms of home county
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Questions about home county
- What does home county mean?
- Home county means any of the counties that surround London in the south-east of England.
- What part of speech is home county?
- Home county is a noun.
- What is the plural of home county?
- The plural of home county is home counties.
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