home counties

1. 1.

   the English counties surrounding London into which Greater London has expanded

   Broadercounty

   United Kingdom

Questions about home counties

What does home counties mean?

home counties means "the English counties surrounding London into which Greater London has expanded".

Is home counties a common word?

home counties 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.