What does county town mean?

county town means "the town or city that is the seat of government for a shire".

What is another word for county town?

Close synonyms include shire town. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is county town a common word?

county town is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

county town — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
the town or city that is the seat of government for a shire
Synonymsshire town
Broaderseat
Part ofshire
United Kingdom

Questions about county town

What does county town mean?: county town means "the town or city that is the seat of government for a shire".
What is another word for county town?: Close synonyms include shire town. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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