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Historic county

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traditional countynoun(UK) any of the historic divisions of Great Britain no longer used for administrative purposes in favour of ceremonial counties and administrative counties
norm.nounAbbreviation of normal. [(geometry, countable) A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.]
norman frenchnounA dialect of Old French spoken in medieval Normandy, and in England following the Norman Conquest.
anglo-normannounThe Old French dialect spoken in England by the ruling classes after the Norman Conquest, or the form of this dialect used in English law until the 17th century.
northumbriannounOf, from, or relating to Northumbria or its inhabitants.
wapentakenounAn administrative subdivision in northern English counties, developed under Norse influence, and corresponding to hundreds in the rest of England.
duchy of normandynounA country, a duchy in Europe, now only composed of the Channel Islands in the English Channel; a crown possession of the Monarch of England, since the Conquest of England by William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy; bureaucratically, it is administered by the UK.
libertynounThe condition of being free.
northumbrianoun(informal) A vaguely defined geographic area of England, often synonymous with North East England.
norman conquestnoun(historical) The invasion of England by the Normans in 1066 and their subsequent settlement.
englishrynoun(uncountable) Englishness.
normandynounAn administrative region, historical province, and medieval kingdom in northwest France, on the English Channel. The modern region was created in 2016 with the merger of Upper Normandy and Lower Normandy.
villnoun(historical) The smallest administrative unit of land in feudal England, corresponding to the Anglo-Saxon tithing and the modern parish.
north countrynoun(often capitalized; with the) Northern England.
anglo-frenchnounOf or pertaining to England and France or the people thereof.
normannounA member of the mixed Scandinavian and Frankish peoples who, in the 11th century, were a major military power in Western Europe and who conquered the English in 1066.
shirenoun(British) (chiefly historical) An administrative area or district between about the 5th to the 11th century, subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; also, a present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; a county; especially (England), a county having a name ending in -shire.
old northnoun(historical) The region of modern northern England and southern Scotland inhabited by Cumbric-speaking Celtic Britons in the Early Middle Ages.
somersetshirenoun(archaic) The English county of Somerset.
old englishnoun(linguistics, history) The ancestor language of Modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in most of Britain from about 400 to 1100.

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