Noun: county
| Singular | county |
| Plural | counties |
Sample Sentences
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The first of the principalities of the Low Countries to take clear shape was the county of Flanders. [2018, Paul Arblaster, A History of the Low Countries:]
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Entire states such as California, Illinois and New York are now sanctuaries, as well as major cities and counties such as Fairfax, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties and the District of Columbia in the capital region, according to the list. […] FAIR says the county is a sanctuary because it tells police not to ask about immigration status even during an arrest. [2018 May 10, Stephen Dinan, “Half of all Americans now live in ‘sanctuaries’ protecting immigrants”, in The Washington Times:]
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traditional county
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He can't come; he's up in the county for agg assault.
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Okay gentlemen, you've both been to county before, I'm sure. Here it comes. [1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by The Wolf (Harvey Keitel):]
Nouns inflected like county
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English countee, counte, conte, from Anglo-Norman counté, Old French conté (French comté), from Latin comitātus (“jurisdiction of a count”), from comes (“count, earl”). Cognate with Spanish condado (“county”) and Italian contea (“county”). Doublet of comitatus, borrowed directly from Latin. Mostly displaced native Old English sċīr, whence Modern English shire. See: Middle English Nouns '
countee', Latin Nouns '
comitātus', Spanish Nouns '
condado', Italian Nouns '
contea'.
Verbs referencing "county"
Spanish Nouns
condado, Irish Nouns
contae, German Nouns
County.