Definition Home Counties in British English

Home Counties adjective

adjective

/ˌhəʊm ˈkaʊntiz/

The Home Counties are the areas around London, which are seen as typical middle-class English suburbs (=areas where people live in fairly large houses on the edge of cities).

used for describing attitudes or qualities that are thought to be typical of conservative middle-class English people

Example

her Home Counties accent

Synonyms and related words

middle-class bourgeois petit bourgeois

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Definition Home Counties in British English