county seat
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.67 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The city in which the offices of county government are located.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
county seats (plural)