Somersetshire

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English

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Etymology

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From Somerset +‎ -shire.

Proper noun

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Somersetshire

  1. (archaic) The English county of Somerset.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
      In that part of the western division of this kingdom which is commonly called Somersetshire, there lately lived, and perhaps lives still, a gentleman whose name was Allworthy […]
    • 1962 April, “Death from Natural Causes?”, in Modern Railways, page 218:
      What have Hampshire and the contiguous areas got that Gloucestershire, Somersetshire and Wiltshire have not?
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