Essex

[ es-iks ]

noun

1. 2nd Earl of. Devereux, Robert.
2. a county in SE England. 1,418 sq. mi. (3,670 sq. km).
3. a town in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
4. a town in W Vermont.

Essex

¹

/ ˈɛsɪks /

noun

1. Essex, 2nd Earl of?15661601MEnglishMILITARY: soldierMISC: courtier 2nd Earl of, title of Robert Devereux. ?1566–1601, English soldier and favourite of Queen Elizabeth I; executed for treason

Essex

²

/ ˈɛsɪks /

noun

1. a county of SE England, on the North Sea and the Thames estuary; the geographical and ceremonial county includes Thurrock and Southend-on-Sea, which became independent unitary authorities in 1998. Administrative centre: Chelmsford. Pop (excluding unitary authorities): 1 324 100 (2003 est). Area (excluding unitary authorities): 3446 sq km (1310 sq miles)
2. an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that in the early 7th century ad comprised the modern county of Essex and much of Hertfordshire and Surrey. By the late 8th century, Essex had become a dependency of the kingdom of Mercia

Example Sentences

Elizabeth Green, who is in her 50s, first got into the sport in 2019 after seeing adverts for a new women’s team in Essex, in south-east England.

From Time

Her most likely GOP opponent is Morris County Commissioner Tayfun Selen, who has the backing of the party committees in Morris and Essex counties, which contain most GOP primary voters in the district.

From FiveThirtyEight

British sprinter Mark Cavendish revealed on his Instagram account that he and his family were robbed at knifepoint at their home in Essex, England, on November 27.

From Outside Online

Fresh off a run as toxic alpha Regina George in Broadway’s Mean Girls, Reneé Rapp plays rich New Yorker Leighton, an Essex legacy with a frat-boy older brother, sorority ambitions and a pair of high-school friends who dumped her as a roommate.

From Time

Essex police also halted an investigation into the case of one of the English women, who accused Nelly of assaulting her after a gig at Cliffs Pavilion in Southend, due to her failure to testify.

From The Daily Beast

Three years later, another father and son duo found a 500-year-old gold pendant worth $4 million in Essex.

From The Daily Beast

“They get paid for their oil in dollars,” said David Solin, a partner at Foreign Exchange Analytics in Essex, Connecticut.

From The Daily Beast

“It is a little more exciting,” said Joe DiVincenzo, the Essex County Executive in the lobby of the statehouse, prior to speech.

From The Daily Beast

According to the Essex court document, that move may have cost her custody of her child.

From The Daily Beast

Then the power went out next door, at a shelter housed by the Essex County Office of Emergency Management.

From The Daily Beast

Essex hanged a few without much effect, for they preferred both starving and hanging to fighting.

From Project Gutenberg

Then someone hinted to Essex that cows were moveable property, and that he had better be on his guard.

From Project Gutenberg

The cattle reached the shelter of thick woods, and Essex returned to learn that many of the townsmen were in the plot.

From Project Gutenberg

Essex could do nothing against the enemy, but some whom he considered lukewarm friends were more within his power.

From Project Gutenberg

Two trusty messengers were accordingly sent, Essex not concealing his opinion that force alone could reduce the North.

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