Definition of Hampshire

1. Noun. A county of southern England on the English Channel.

Generic synonyms: County
Group relationships: England
Terms within: Winchester, New Forest

2. Noun. British breed of hornless dark-faced domestic sheep.
Exact synonyms: Hampshire Down
Generic synonyms: Domestic Sheep, Ovis Aries

Definition of Hampshire

1. Proper noun. A maritime county in the south of England bordered by Berkshire, Surrey, Sussex, Dorset, Wiltshire and the English Channel; also includes the Isle of Wight. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hampshire

Hamman's syndrome
Hammarskjold
Hammarsten's reagent
Hammer
Hammers
Hammerschlag's method
Hammerstein
Hammett
Hammond
Hammond's disease
Hammond organ
Hammond organs
Hammourabi
Hammurabi
Hammurapi
Hampshire down
Hampshirite
Hampshirites
Hampton
Hampton's hump
Hampton Roads
Hampton line
Hampton manoeuvre
Hampton technique
Hamsun
Han
Han Chinese
Han dynasty
Hance

Literary usage of Hampshire

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1901)
"CHAPTER X. BETWEEN hampshire AND LONDON. IR PITT CRAWLEY had done more than repair fences and restore dilapidated lodges on the Queen's Crawley estate. ..."

2. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"CHAPTER XXXVIII OF THE HOME-COMING TO hampshire IT was a bright July morning four months after that fatal fight in the Spanish barranca. ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The chief events connected with hampshire in the Civil War of the lyth century were the gallant resistance of the cavalier garrisons at Winchester and ..."

4. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1905)
"TO THE QUARTER-MASTERS OP FREDERICK, hampshire AND BERKELEY. RICHMOND, December 24, 1780. SIR,—A detachment of the militia of the county of Frederick being ..."

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