BERKSHIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Berkshire mean? 

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

1. a county in southern England

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BERKSHIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A county in southern England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Berkshire"):

Eton College (a public school for boys founded in 1440; located in Berkshire)

Reading (a city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England)

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

But he has a gentleman staying with him, a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm.

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

Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village.

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

To Eyford, in Berkshire.

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

The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency.

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