county meaning
EN
[ˈkaʊnti] [-aʊnti] 
US WCounty
- A county, abbreviated Cnty. (US) or Co. (UK and Ireland), is a geographical region of a country used for administrative or other purposes, in certain modern nations.
- When the Normans conquered England, they brought the term with them.
- A county may be further subdivided into districts, hundreds, townships or other administrative jurisdictions within the county. A county usually, but not always, contains cities, towns, townships, villages, or other municipal corporations.
- Outside English-speaking countries,
- NounPLcounties
- (historical) The land ruled by a count or a countess.
- An administrative region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Serbia and Montenegro and Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
- A definitive geographic region, without direct administrative functions.
- traditional county
- (historical) The land ruled by a count or a countess.
- AdjectiveCOMmore countySUPmost county
- Characteristic of a ‘county family’; representative of the gentry or aristocracy of a county.
- Characteristic of a ‘county family’; representative of the gentry or aristocracy of a county.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The study site is located in the midsouth portion of the Tibetan Plateau in the grassland station of Damxung County [ …]
- We talk a lot about being "a nation of laws," but some of the laws found on the books of states, counties and municipalities are a bit much.
- Joe has joined the party's ticket for the county elections.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Their book is a handsome physical production, reliably spiralbound and printed on sturdy stock, with an especially clever foldout map of Illinois counties.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of county in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
- en countyhood
- en countylike
- en countywide
- en county fair
- en county seat
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "county" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.