Sussex

American  

[suhs-iks] / ˈsʌs ɪks /

noun

1. a former county in SE England: divided into East Sussex and West Sussex.

2. one of an English breed of red beef cattle.

3. one of an English breed of chickens, raised chiefly for marketing as roasters.

4. a kingdom of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy in SE England.

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Sussex British  

/ ˈsʌsɪks /

noun

1. (until 1974) a county of SE England, now divided into the separate counties of East Sussex and West Sussex

2. (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

3. a breed of red beef cattle originally from Sussex

4. a heavy and long-established breed of domestic fowl used principally as a table bird

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Example Sentences

Jackie Haynes, who will be 80 this year, told the BBC that she loved her part-time job as an activity coordinator at the Sussex Grange care home.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

The butterflies had not yet been released, but once free of their storage nets, the space would become "a living classroom", Matt Simmonds, founder of Sussex Butterfly House, explained.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

"I can't think of anything more tragic or more horrendous," she told BBC Radio Sussex.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

For eight years, Ritchie had been living in her own adapted bungalow in West Sussex, with 24-hour nursing support, organised and paid for by NHS Sussex.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

I worked in three hospitals in the duration—Alder Hey and the Royal East Sussex as well as St. Thomas’s—and I merged them in my description to concentrate all my experiences into one place.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan