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home county

noun

Definitions

  1. Any of the counties that surround London in the south-east of England.

    • Owing to the comparative nearness to London and populous home county centres, road competition is keen for goods as well as summer passenger business.
    • Think home counties, and the sorts of things that come to mind are blue-rinse, golf courses and village halls. This is a stereotype we need to reconsider based on the latest demographic shifts we are seeing in and around London.
    • “I think my accent must have morphed to fit in, because I speak with I think they call it home county vowels,” she laughs.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA