County ˈkaʊnti Boundaries Noun Bre Southern Orange Fairfax

• the southern counties
• county boundaries
• orange county
• fairfax county department of family services

county

1. an area of Britain, Ireland or the US that has its own government
• see also Home Counties
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/the-home-counties
• the southern counties
• county boundaries
• Orange County

Extra Examples

• Fairfax County Department of Family Services
• He returned to his home county in North Carolina.
• He was elected MP for his native county of Merioneth.
• London and its surrounding counties
• London and the home counties
• She represents the county in Parliament.
• The river forms the county boundary.
• Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire.
• people who live in this county
• the Welsh border counties
• the historic county of Westmorland
• the town of Sierra Blanca, the county seat of Hudspeth County, Texas
• Originally, county boundaries often followed the course of a river.
• The US state of California is divided into 58 counties.
• The pit closures had the greatest effect in the northern counties of England.

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French conte, from Latin comitatus, from comes, comit- ‘companion, overseer, attendant’ (in late Latin ‘person holding a state office’), from com- ‘together with’ + it- ‘gone’ (from the verb ire ‘go’). The word seems first to have denoted a periodical meeting held to transact business in the area (the shire).