LEICESTERSHIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Leicestershire mean? 

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

1. a largely agricultural county in central England

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEICESTERSHIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A largely agricultural county in central England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Leicester; Leicestershire

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Leicestershire"):

Leicester (an industrial city in Leicestershire in central England; built on the site of a Roman settlement)

Domain member region:

Bosworth Field (the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (1485); Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned as Henry VII)

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

There’s not much really good waggoning now south of Leicestershire.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fletcher and I mean to get a house in Leicestershire, against the next season.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)