Usually means: Administrative division within a state.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word county:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. county: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. county: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. county: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. county: Collins English Dictionary
  5. county: Vocabulary.com
  6. COunty, County, County, county, county: Wordnik
  7. county: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. county: Wiktionary
  9. county: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. county: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. county: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. County, county: Dictionary.com
  13. county: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. county: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. County (Croatia), County (Ireland), County (Kingdom of Hungary), County (New York), County (People's Republic of China), County (Taiwan), County (U.S.), County (US), County (United States), County (disambiguation), County (ward), County, The County: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. County: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. county: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. county: Rhymezone
  19. county: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. county: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. COUNTY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. county: Free Dictionary
  23. county: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. county: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. COUNTY: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. county: Legal dictionary
  4. county: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. county: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. county: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The County, county: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (historical) The land ruled by a count or a countess.
noun:  An administrative or geographical region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and 47 of the 50 United States (excluding Alaska, Connecticut, and Louisiana).
noun:  A definitive geographic region, without direct administrative functions.
noun:  (US, slang, uncountable) A jail operated by a county government.
adjective:  Characteristic of a ‘county family’; representative of the gentry or aristocracy of a county.

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