What does county mean?
Definitions for county
ˈkaʊn ticoun·ty
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Princeton's WordNet
county(noun)
(United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government
"the county has a population of 12,345 people"
county(noun)
(United States) the largest administrative district within a state
"the county plans to build a new road"
Wiktionary
county(Noun)
The land ruled by a count or a countess.
county(Noun)
An administrative region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Serbia and Montenegro and Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
county(Noun)
A definitive geographic region, without direct administrative functions, as in traditional county.
Webster Dictionary
County(noun)
an earldom; the domain of a count or earl
Etymology: [F. comt, fr. LL. comitatus. See Count.]
County(noun)
a circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; -- called also a shire. See Shire
Etymology: [F. comt, fr. LL. comitatus. See Count.]
County(noun)
a count; an earl or lord
Etymology: [F. comt, fr. LL. comitatus. See Count.]
Freebase
County
A county is a geographical region of a country used for administrative or other purposes in certain modern nations. Its etymology derives from the Old French term, conté or cunté and could denote a jurisdiction in mainland Europe, under the sovereignty of a count or a viscount. The modern French is comté, and its equivalents in other languages are contea, contado, comtat, condado, Grafschaft, Gau, etc.. When the Normans conquered England, they brought the term with them. The Saxons had already established the regions that became the Historic counties of England calling them shires. The Vikings introduced the term earl to the British Isles. Thus, "earl" and "earldom" were taken as equivalent to the continental use of "count" and "county". So, the later-imported term became a synonym for the native English word scir or, in Modern English, shire. Since a shire was an administrative division of the kingdom, the term "county" evolved to designate an administrative division of national government in most modern uses.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'county' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1121
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'county' in Written Corpus Frequency: #365
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'county' in Nouns Frequency: #336
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of county in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of county in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of county in a Sentence
Defenders of sanctuary policies say they protect immigrants from deportation and reduce illegal immigrants ’ fear of cops. But critics, including Homeland Security Department officials say releasing illegal immigrant criminals inside the U.S. is dangerous. Claude Arnold, a retired U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations, said sanctuary advocates claim immigration enforcement is the exclusive responsibility of the federal government, however enacting laws like the California Trust Act, which dictates how the federal government can enforce the law, contradicts those claims and can be devastating consequences. The murder of 32-year-old Kathlene Steinle’s in June 2015 by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, is a prime example, Claude Arnold said. Steinle was shot dead while strolling on San Francisco’s Embarcadero with her father. The alleged shooter, a felon and five-time deportee, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges, claiming the shooting was an accident. Those responsible for releasing him not long before the shooting despite a federal request to detain him for deportation should also have consequences, Claude Arnold said. When sanctuary jurisdictions like San Francisco County release criminals that officials know are in the U.S. illegally, and those criminals commit heinous crimes, those responsible should be federally prosecuted.
Two hundred ten years ago, the people who drafted our Bill of Rights decided that banning books wasn't the way to handle disagreements. They thought the best thing was more speech. It is a pity that county commissioners in 2002 don't agree.
We pray that for the sake of peace and safety and international relations that you rise to (the) occasion, and wrest control of the criminal investigation from the hands of county prosecutors in Washington state.
He took a lie detector test. I had him take a polygraph, which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs, oh, he plea bargained. Got him off with time served in the county jail, he’d been in the county jail about two months.
I am urging, because of the highly public nature of this case, to ramp down the rhetoric. If someone in this lawsuit or someone in this county has evidence of voter fraud or irregularities, South Florida elections officials should report it to local law enforcement, everything lawyers are saying out there is being beamed out all over the country.
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- مقاطعةArabic
- окръг, графствоBulgarian
- comarca, comtatCatalan, Valencian
- hrabství, okresCzech
- sirWelsh
- amtDanish
- Grafschaft, Landkreis, Bezirk, CountyGerman
- περιφέρεια, κομητεία, νομός, επαρχίαGreek
- graflandoEsperanto
- condadoSpanish
- maakunta, kreivikuntaFinnish
- comté, départementFrench
- contaeIrish
- siorrachd, siorramachdScottish Gaelic
- काउंटीHindi
- megye, grófságHungarian
- կոմսությունArmenian
- contado, conteaItalian
- 郡Japanese
- ស្រុក, អាណាស្រុកKhmer
- دهوڵهتKurdish
- grafystėLithuanian
- grāfisteLatvian
- грофовство, грофовија, округMacedonian
- graafschapDutch
- fylkeNorwegian
- powiatPolish
- condadoPortuguese
- județRomanian
- графство, округ, уездRussian
- grofijaSlovene
- grevskap, länSwedish
- quận, quận hạtVietnamese
- grafänVolapük
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