💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Historic county"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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.noun | Abbreviation of normal. [(geometry, countable) A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.] |
| norman frenchnoun | A dialect of Old French spoken in medieval Normandy, and in England following the Norman Conquest. |
| anglo-normannoun | The 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. |
| northumbriannoun | Of, from, or relating to Northumbria or its inhabitants. |
| wapentakenoun | An administrative subdivision in northern English counties, developed under Norse influence, and corresponding to hundreds in the rest of England. |
| duchy of normandynoun | A 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. |
| libertynoun | The 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. |
| normandynoun | An 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-frenchnoun | Of or pertaining to England and France or the people thereof. |
| normannoun | A 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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