ESSEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Essex mean? 

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

1. a county in southeastern England on the North Sea and the Thames estuary

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESSEX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A county in southeastern England on the North Sea and the Thames estuary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

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

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

 Context examples 

And I thought you were some Essex chaw-bacon!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)