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the Home Counties

noun [plural]
 
 

Definition

the counties (= areas) around London in southeast England, considered to be a place where rich people liveNamed regions of countries
(Definition of the Home Counties noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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