noun. The largest administrative division of most states in the United States.

noun. undefined

noun. A territorial division exercising administrative, judicial, and political functions in Great Britain and Ireland.

noun. The territory under the jurisdiction of a count or earl.

noun. The people living in a county.

noun. Originally, the domain or territory of a count or earl.

noun. Now, a definite division of a country or state for political or administrative purposes.

noun. Collectively, the inhabitants of a county.

Of or pertaining to a county: as, county families; county society.

noun. A count; an earl or lord.

noun. An earldom; the domain of a count or earl.

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.

noun. A count; an earl or lord.

noun. See Commissioner.

noun. a city or town having the privilege to be a county by itself, and to be governed by its own sheriffs and other magistrates, irrespective of the officers of the county in which it is situated; as London, York, Bristol, etc.

noun. a court whose jurisdiction is limited to county.

noun. a county distinguished by particular privileges; -- so called a palatio (from the palace), because the owner had originally royal powers, or the same powers, in the administration of justice, as the king had in his palace; but these powers are now abridged. The counties palatine, in England, are Lancaster, Chester, and Durham.

noun. rates levied upon the county, and collected by the boards of guardians, for the purpose of defraying the expenses to which counties are liable, such as repairing bridges, jails, etc.

noun. a county town.

noun. the general quarter sessions of the peace for each county, held four times a year.

noun. the town of a county, where the county business is transacted; a shire town.

noun. The land ruled by a count or a countess.

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.

noun. A definitive geographic region, without direct administrative functions, as in traditional county.

noun. (United States) the largest administrative district within a state

noun. (United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government

"MIKE ANTONOVICH, LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERVISOR: They want to cash in on this hot real estate market and they want to ship out all of the so-called homeless into other parts of the county."

administrative county  board of county commissioners  body of a county  county borough  county clerk  

traditional county  

administrative district  administrative division  territorial division  

Brownie  Downey  Townie  bounty  brownie  

200-bed  Javanese  church  colony  department  

Kreis  Palatinate  ally  archbishopric  archdiocese  

shire