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viscounties

viscounties is the plural of viscounty.

Meaning of viscounty

Noun

viscounty (plural viscounties)

  1. The territory administered by a viscount as (notably royal) official
  2. An estate held (as fief or nominally) with the title of viscount
    • His grace made a surrender to the crown, in 1706, of the titles conferred upon his father, and obtained a new grant of those honors, dated 17th of June, 1706, extending the remaindership to his heirs male or female, descended from William, first Earl of Queensberry, leaving the marquesate and...1826, John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom, page 262

Questions about viscounties

What is viscounties the plural of?
Viscounties is the plural of viscounty.

Words near viscounties in the dictionary

  1. viscountal
  2. viscountcies
  3. viscountcy
  4. viscountess
  5. viscountesses
  6. viscounties
  7. viscounts
  8. viscountship
  9. viscountships
  10. viscounty
  11. viscous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: viscounties (page history and authors); viscounty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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