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Somersetshire en · PROPN

Etymology

From Somerset + -shire.

Meanings

  1. (archaic) The English county of Somerset.
    • In that part of the western division of this kingdom which is commonly called Somersetshire, there lately lived, and perhaps lives still, a gentleman whose name was Allworthy […] 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
    • What have Hampshire and the contiguous areas got that Gloucestershire, Somersetshire and Wiltshire have not? 1962 April, “Death from Natural Causes?”, in Modern Railways, page 218: