Dorset

¹

[ dawr-sit ]

noun

1. 1st Earl of. Thomas Sackville.
2. Dorsetshire.

Dorset

²

[ dawr-sit ]

noun

1. an Indigenous culture that flourished from a.d. 100–1000 in the central and eastern regions of Arctic North America, preceding the Inuit culture.

Dorset

/ ˈdɔːsɪt /

noun

1. a county in SW England, on the English Channel: mainly hilly but low-lying in the east: the geographical and ceremonial county includes Bournemouth and Poole, which became independent unitary authorities in 1997. Administrative centre: Dorchester. Pop (excluding unitary authorities): 398 200 (2003 est). Area (excluding unitary authorities): 2544 sq km (982 sq miles)

Word History and Origins

Origin of Dorset¹

After Cape Dorset in northern Canada

Example Sentences

He had lived in the southern English county of Dorset since the early 1990s.

From Washington Post

Born in Dorset, England in 1893 to working class parents, Alec loves to read.

From Washington Blade

Spurrier died March 9 at his home in Dorset, England, at age 79.

From Washington Post

Mary Anning discovered her first prehistoric skeleton in Dorset when she was 12 years old.

From Washington Post

In 2007, a Dorset man brought a lawn statute featuring a recognizable Egyptian headdress to an expert for evaluation.

From The Daily Beast

One brutal exhibit features a recently discovered mass grave in Dorset, southern England.

From The Daily Beast

She summoned an ambulance to the flat in Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset, but Miss Moss was pronounced dead at the scene.

From The Daily Beast

My father was born in Dorset, but went to Ireland with his parents when he was three.

From The Daily Beast

I had the idea to write about her when I was at a small dinosaur museum in Dorset.

From The Daily Beast

While we much enjoyed our day in the Dorset byways, our progress had necessarily been slow.

From Project Gutenberg

He apparently hoped that he might represent the eastern half, and relied on the influence of the Duke of Dorset at Buckhurst.

From Project Gutenberg

At the dissolution of the monasteries the diocese of Bristol was founded, which included the counties of Bristol and Dorset.

From Project Gutenberg

The spring made her wild with the wildness of her girlhood when the white April evenings met her on her Dorset moors.

From Project Gutenberg

The present Duke of Dorset, an old man, is the uncle of his predecessor; he has inherited the title without the estate.

From Project Gutenberg