County vs Nottinghamshire - What's the difference?
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(historical) The land ruled by a count or a countess.
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.
A definitive geographic region, without direct administrative functions.
Characteristic of a ‘county family’; representative of the gentry or aristocracy of a county.
*1979 , , Smiley's People , Folio Society 2010, p. 274:
*:She was a tall girl and county , with Hilary's walk: she seemed to topple even when she sat.
A north-midland county of England bordered by South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire.
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
*:"Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."
*:"Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire ? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"
As a noun county
is the land ruled by a count or a countess.As an adjective county
is characteristic of a ‘county family’; representative of the gentry or aristocracy of a county.As a proper noun Nottinghamshire is
a north-midland county of England bordered by South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire.county
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Noun
(counties)- traditional county