county line
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈkaʊnti laɪn/
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línea del condado
- The road crosses the county line just a mile ahead.
Examples
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Secondary roads are snow-covered along the Smyth and Wythe county line.
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By my calculation we should be well outside the county line.
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this side of the county line
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We're on the county line.
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I drive them to the county line.
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Lived out by the county line.
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I found his car abandoned at the county line 20 miles from here.
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You escort him to the county line in the morning.
Fiction book (1997) -
He lives by himself way down near the county line.
Academic text (1998) -
And a Chase County sheriff's deputy escorted me to the county line in his car.
Blog text (20)
Synonyms
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1.0
A line that separates two countries or regions
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4.1
A line that shows the edge between two places or countries
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3.2
A border that shows where one local area ends and another begins
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'boundary separating two counties' is directly derivable from combining 'county' (a local government region) with 'line' (a dividing mark or boundary); the compound denotes the dividing line between counties. This is a straightforward noun-noun composition common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should understand it.
Etymology
County line comes from a simple, literal picture: county meaning a local area and line meaning a border or mark that shows where one county ends and the next begins. So it means the 'boundary separating two counties', and you can often see it as a road, fence, or old tree.