🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

Middlesex

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Middlesex

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Middlesex/ˈmɪd.əl.sɛks/
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Middlesex est un ancien comté anglais."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A historic county in southeast England, now largely incorporated into Greater London.

    "Many historic records from the 19th century list addresses in the county of Middlesex."
  2. 2

    An abbreviated postal or geographical designation formerly used for areas within the historic county.

    "Middx was commonly used as an official abbreviation on letters and legal documents."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English 'Middle-Seaxe', meaning the 'middle Saxons', to distinguish them from the East Saxons (Essex) and South Saxons (Sussex). Historically recorded in Anglo-Saxon charters, it originally designated a territorial division of the kingdom of the East Saxons.

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