HERTFORDSHIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hertfordshire mean? 

• HERTFORDSHIRE (noun)
  The noun HERTFORDSHIRE has 1 sense:

1. a county in southern England

  Familiarity information: HERTFORDSHIRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HERTFORDSHIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A county in southern England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

county ((United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government)

Holonyms ("Hertfordshire" is a part of...):

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Holonyms ("Hertfordshire" is a member of...):

Home Counties (the English counties surrounding London into which Greater London has expanded)

 Context examples 

I had not been long in Hertfordshire, before I saw, in common with others, that Bingley preferred your elder sister to any other young woman in the country.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The proximity of the planets and their similarity to Earth mean that they could eventually be a home for humans, according to the astronomers from the University of Hertfordshire.

(Potentially Habitable 'Super-Earths' Found Orbiting around Sun's near Neighbor, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It is a proof of your own attachment to Hertfordshire.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The first time of my ever seeing him in Hertfordshire, you must know, was at a ball—and at this ball, what do you think he did?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

To persuade him against returning into Hertfordshire, when that conviction had been given, was scarcely the work of a moment.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Of his former way of life nothing had been known in Hertfordshire but what he told himself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Bingley expressed great pleasure in the certainty of seeing Elizabeth again, having still a great deal to say to her, and many inquiries to make after all their Hertfordshire friends.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

You may, in fact, carry a very favourable report of us into Hertfordshire, my dear cousin.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

We shall often meet, I hope, in Hertfordshire.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Oh! if that is all, I have a very poor opinion of young men who live in Derbyshire; and their intimate friends who live in Hertfordshire are not much better.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)