home counties Meaning of "home counties"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) the English counties surrounding London into which Greater London has expanded

Usage(s):

  1. 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.
  2. The President had gone to Hyde Park and had spent the day before election touring his home counties.
  3. Joyously bearing sanctified trophies, the Scottish pilgrims returned to their home counties of Dumbarton.
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