definitions

county fair

|
SEE MORE SYNONYMS FOR county fair ON THESAURUS.COM

noun

a competitive exhibition of farm products, livestock, etc., often held annually in the same place in the county.

RELATED CONTENT

4th of JulyRead more in this article about some frequently asked questions and fun facts related to our definitions.
READ MORE
What Does “FICO” Stand For?When was the last time you ordered a credit report? The paper document is abstruse enough, but you have to maneuver through the morass of oddly-named companies that produce them — Equifax, Experian, TransUnion and more. The process is abstract, but the results are concrete. There’s some new, and bad, news about those infamous numbers. More than a quarter of Americans now have scores of 599 or lower. …
READ MORE

RELATED WORDS

marketplace, pageant, show, presentation, showing, circus, mart, production, exhibition, bazaar, demonstration, display, expo

Nearby words

county board, county borough, county clerk, county commissioner, county court, county fair, county farm, county home, county palatine, county seat, county town

Origin of county fair

First recorded in 1835–45
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for county fair

  • You look as you would under a county-fair photographer's mercury-vapor arc lamps, only worse.

    The Skylark of Space|Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby

  • It was more than a store; it was an institution, like the courthouse and the county-fair grounds.

    Those Times And These|Irvin S. Cobb