home counties
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Definition(s):
- (n) the English counties surrounding London into which Greater London has expanded
Usage(s):
- But this black-and-white timbered home in a rustic patch of Hertfordshire, in south England's home counties, is not just an ordinary house.
- The President had gone to Hyde Park and had spent the day before election touring his home counties.
- Joyously bearing sanctified trophies, the Scottish pilgrims returned to their home counties of Dumbarton.
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