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coun·ty

county

 
 
pronunciation:
kaUn ti
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part of speech: noun
inflections: counties
definition 1: one of several sections into which a U.S. state is divided.
New Jersey has twenty-one counties.
definition 2: a section into which some countries are divided for local government.
Cork is a county of Ireland.
definition 3: all of the people who live in a county.
Most of the county turned out to vote.
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