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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

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A county in eastern England with flat farmland and a North Sea coast
  • proper noun
  • /ˈlɪŋkənʃɪr/
: Lincolnshire
  • Colin Furs is a YouTube personality, stuntman, inventor, filmmaker, and former plumber from Stanford, Lincolnshire, England.

Started off in Burnham through I was living with my mum and my stepdad and my dad and then my dad moved to Lincolnshire.

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Examples

  • Pitt arrived at the Broad Street Station of the Great Northern Railway just in time to catch his train to Lincolnshire.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Then we will look in Lincolnshire.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • " This is Lincolnshire, not London."

    Fiction book (1998)

  • I was brought up on a farm in Lincolnshire, UK, where my dad grew potatoes.

    Blog text (15)

  • John Smith came from Lincolnshire, and down here in beautiful Norfolk, there are lots of our people, such as Thomas.

    Blog text (9)

  • - We're trying to get across to our relatives in Lincolnshire.

    Threads (1984)

  • Johnny English is a geography teacher from Lincolnshire.

    Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)

  • You'd better go to Lincolnshire and see what you can find out.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Speaker, from a lettings agency in Lincolnshire where Universal Credit is about to be rolled out.

  • The county of Lincolnshire is famous for its fertile farmland and beautiful landscapes.

Surface Forms

Lincolnshire main

Morphology

Lincolnshire = Lincoln (transparent) = Lincoln + shire

Formed from the place-name 'Lincoln' plus the productive English county-forming suffix '-shire', so the meaning 'the shire (county) of Lincoln' follows directly.

Etymology

Lincolnshire is made from the town name Lincoln and the old word shire, which means 'county' as in Yorkshire or Oxfordshire. Lincoln comes from an old word for 'lake' or 'pool', so Lincolnshire is the county around the town of Lincoln.