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county seat en · NOUN

Etymology

Compound of county + seat.

Meanings

1. The city in which the offices of county government are located.
   • As the Yeh-Ho armies approached Swatow, peasants briefly captured two other county seats, Ch’ao-yang and Chieh-yang, but there was very little coordination between the local forces and the oncoming troops. 1984 [1983], C. Martin Wilbur, The Nationalist Revolution in China, 1923-1928, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155:
   • Lawrence is the county seat of Douglas County.
   • Some ten thousand peasants in Hsichuan county in Honan province used hoes, scythes, wooden poles, etc. as weapons and took over the county seat. They expanded their forces and held areas in two neighboring counties. The CC sent a force of one hundred thousand troops and fought the peasants for nearly two months before the uprising was put down. 1960, Ching-wen Chow, “The Awakening of the Chinese People”, in Lai Ming, transl., edited by Lai Ming, Ten Years of Storm: The True Story of the Communist Regime in China, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 305; republished as “China in Chains”, in The Truth About Communism, number 8, Milwaukee, Wis.: THE TRUTH, Inc., 1961, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

Forms

Relateds

parish seat · country seat · county town

Synonyms

shire town

Translations (11)

vi quận lị (city in which the offices of county government are located) · ka მუნიციპალიტეტის მთავარი ცენტრი (city in which the offices of county government are located) · kw se konteth (city in which the offices of county government are located) · ka ოლქის მთავარი ქალაქი (city in which the offices of county government are located) · sv länshuvudstad (city in which the offices of county government are located) · pl siedziba hrabstwa (city in which the offices of county government are located) · sv residensstad (city in which the offices of county government are located) · cmn 縣治 /县治 (city in which the offices of county government are located) · vi quận lỵ (city in which the offices of county government are located) · cmn 縣城 /县城 (city in which the offices of county government are located) · hu megyeszékhely (city in which the offices of county government are located)