SUSSEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sussex mean? 

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

1. a county in southern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that was captured by Wessex in the 9th century

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUSSEX (noun)

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Meaning:

A county in southern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that was captured by Wessex in the 9th century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

New research at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) explains how, for the first time.

(Sound of Nature Helps Us Relax, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A burly Sussex policeman and I had found it no light job.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

About 1869 or 1870 he came back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I suppose you were very sorry to leave Sussex.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I came down to Sussex with the intention of seeing the captain, but it was at this moment that his terrible death occurred.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I’m doing smith’s work down Sussex way.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They puzzled a worthy Sussex doctor some ninety years ago; but who in the world could have hoped—hoped—to have seen a sight like that?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Researchers Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen found the document in the archives of the small town of Chichester in Sussex, in southern England.

(Parchment Copy of Declaration of Independence Found in Small British Town, VOA)

Robert F. Curl Jr. and Richard E. Smalley, both of Rice University in Houston, Texas and Harold W. Kroto of the University of Sussex in England, won the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discovery of buckminsterfullerene, the scientific name for buckyballs.

(Buckyball, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“It came this morning by the prince's messenger,” said he, “and was brought from England by Sir John Fallislee, who is new come from Sussex. What make you of this upon the outer side?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)