sussex
/ˈsʌs.ɪks/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Daniel Hajas is a physics undergraduate at Sussex and has been blind since he was 16. He first heard about Giles and the SSDs when Giles was looking for blind students to test the devices."
- "In the blood of the four groups of birds examined, (viz. purebred Sussexes and Bantams and their reciprocal hybrids) distinct differences were found of the content of DNA and RNA between the Sussexes and the three remaining groups."
- "In the USSR, Sussexes are distributed in the western and southern parts of the Ukrainian SSR."
- "Grouped around the fowl of the second class (see Fig. 3) are such breeds as White Plymouth Rock, Light Sussex, White Cornish, and Kuchinskaya yubileinaya – all meat breeds, apart from the sussexes; […]"
- "Spring and summer were more kind and the flock multipled,^([sic]) although no purebred Sussexes had survived the winter."
- "In this group fall the medium-size breeds, such as the Plymouth Rocks, Reds, New Hampshires, Sussexes, Orpingtons, Australorps, and others."
Etymology
Inherited from Old English Sūþseaxan (literally “South Saxons”), which stood for both Sussex and its people. The town in New Brunswick may have been named after Sussex, New Jersey. The civil parish is named after the town.
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: Sūþseaxan
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈsʌs.ɪks/
Usage
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Derived Forms
Phrases
1 Sussex Drive
1 Sussex Street
24 Sussex Drive
24 Sussex Street
County of Sussex
Duchess of Sussex
Duke of Sussex
East Sussex