Sussex
Americannoun
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a former county in SE England: divided into East Sussex and West Sussex.
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one of an English breed of red beef cattle.
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one of an English breed of chickens, raised chiefly for marketing as roasters.
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a kingdom of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy in SE England.
noun
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(until 1974) a county of SE England, now divided into the separate counties of East Sussex and West Sussex
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(in Anglo-Saxon England) the kingdom of the South Saxons, which became a shire of the kingdom of Wessex in the early 9th century a.d
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a breed of red beef cattle originally from Sussex
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a heavy and long-established breed of domestic fowl used principally as a table bird
Example Sentences
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The Duke of Sussex and other high-profile claimants who lost their High Court privacy case against the publisher of the Daily Mail face a potential legal bill of millions of pounds.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
In written submissions, lawyers for the Duke of Sussex and the other claimants described the costs incurred by the Daily Mail's publisher - almost £34.5m as of 9 July - as "eye watering".
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The elephant bone tool came from Boxgrove, an archaeological site near Chichester in West Sussex, England.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Recent research from Lund University and the University of Sussex proposes that the earliest ancestor of vertebrates passed through a cyclops-like stage nearly 600 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
“Lexie was at Serena’s. I was over at Sussex playing ball. You?”
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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