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Somersetshire

Somersetshire proper noun: the English county of Somerset.

Proper noun

Somersetshire

  1. (archaic) The English county of Somerset.
    • In that part of the western division of this kingdom which is commonly called Somersetshire, there lately lived, and perhaps lives still, a gentleman whose name was Allworthy […]1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
    • What have Hampshire and the contiguous areas got that Gloucestershire, Somersetshire and Wiltshire have not?1962 April, “Death from Natural Causes?”, in Modern Railways, page 218

Origin of Somersetshire

From Somerset + -shire.

Questions about Somersetshire

What does Somersetshire mean?
Somersetshire means the English county of Somerset.
What part of speech is Somersetshire?
Somersetshire is a proper noun.

Words near Somersetshire in the dictionary

  1. somerseted
  2. Somersetian
  3. Somersetians
  4. somerseting
  5. somersets
  6. Somersetshire
  7. somersetted
  8. somersetting
  9. Somersham
  10. Somersworth
  11. Somerton

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