Sussex
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Sussex
- /ˈsʌs.ɪks/ UK
Where it comes from
Inherited from Old English Sūþseaxan (literally “South Saxons”), which stood for both Sussex and its people.
The town in New Brunswick may have been named after Sussex, New Jersey. The civil parish is named after the town.
proper noun Sussexes
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A former county of south-east England, England, United Kingdom, now divided into East and West Sussex), then bordered by Surrey, Kent, Hampshire and the English Channel.
Similar: Sussexshire
- Ellipsis of University of Sussex Daniel Hajas is a physics undergraduate at Sussex and has been blind since he was 16. He first heard about Giles and the SSDs when Giles was looking for blind students to test the devices.
- A civil parish of Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
- A town in New Brunswick, Canada.
- Ellipsis of Sussex Drive and Sussex Street: a street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on which the residence of the Prime Minister of Canada and the Governor General of Canada are located.
- A borough in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States.
- A census-designated place, the county seat of Sussex County, Virginia, United States.
- A village in Wisconsin, United States.
- A surname.
noun Sussexes
- A British breed of dual-purpose chicken, reared both for its meat and for its eggs. In the blood of the four groups of birds examined, (viz. purebred Sussexes and Bantams and their reciprocal hybrids) distinct differences were found of the content of DNA and RNA between the Sussexes and the three remaining groups.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: surrey, sidney, brighton, chichester, lewes, eastbourne, hastings, worthing, crawley, southdowns, weald, sussexian, sus., plummer, potter, neville
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name former county in England
| 中文 | 薩塞克斯郡 /萨塞克斯郡 Sàsàikèsī Jùn |
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Talk about this word "Sussex." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sussex. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. Sussex. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sussex "Sussex." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sussex.Cite this
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title = {Sussex},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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