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Examples of county seat in a Sentence
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Downieville, the county seat with fewer than 150 residents, lies deep in the Tahoe National Forest’s northern tier and is about 75 miles northeast of Sacramento.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 16 May 2024
In the county seat of Hualien, a city of about 100,000 people, most places were back to normal — a reflection of Taiwan’s effort to strengthen earthquake preparedness and response since a 7.6-magnitude tremor in 1999 that killed about 2,400 people.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1803, in the meaning defined above
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“County seat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/county%20seat. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
county seat
noun
: a town that is the seat of county administration
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