Middlesex

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A former inland county of England, partly absorbed into the erstwhile County of London in 1889; finally abolished in 1965 and absorbed mainly into Greater London, the south-west corner of the county becoming Spelthorne Borough and included in Surrey. The whole county, in whatever form, had the Thames as its southern boundary.

    "A station on the Middlesex bank [of the Thames] was provided to serve Hampton Wick."

  2. 2
    A number of places in the United States:; A borough in Middlesex County, New Jersey.
  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Yates County, New York.
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Nash County, North Carolina.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Washington County, Vermont.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Accomack County, Virginia.
  4. 9
    The central of the three historical counties of Jamaica, bordered by the counties of Cornwall in the west and Surrey in the east; named for the English county.
  5. 10
    A locality in Central Coast council area, Kentish council area and the Meander Valley council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.
  6. 11
    A rural locality in the Shire of Manjimup, South West region, Western Australia.
  7. 12
    Ellipsis of Middlesex County. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Etymology

From Old English Middelseaxan (literally “Middle Saxons”), which stood for both Middlesex and its people.

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