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county town

noun

Definition of county town

chiefly British
: county seat

Examples of county town in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

 Today, the train doesn’t run through it anymore, but in the past few decades, the Bedford county town, located between Nashville and Chattanooga, has found new life, forging a reputation as destination for road trippers. — Lauren Johnson And Jesse Sparks, Smithsonian, "The 20 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2017," 2 May 2017

First Known Use of county town

1626, in the meaning defined above

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