"home county" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "home counties",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
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      "expansion": "home county (plural home counties)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940 July, R. A. H. Weight, “Hastings—An Interesting Traffic Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 391",
          "text": "Owing to the comparative nearness to London and populous home county centres, road competition is keen for goods as well as summer passenger business.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 October 12, Ian Warren, “How the Conservatives lost their home counties heartland”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Think home counties, and the sorts of things that come to mind are blue-rinse, golf courses and village halls. This is a stereotype we need to reconsider based on the latest demographic shifts we are seeing in and around London.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Any of the counties that surround London in the south-east of England."
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          "London",
          "London"
        ],
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          "England",
          "England"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(often in the plural) Any of the counties that surround London in the south-east of England."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "home nation"
        }
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  "word": "home county"
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    {
      "form": "home counties",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "home county (plural home counties)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "home nation"
    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940 July, R. A. H. Weight, “Hastings—An Interesting Traffic Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 391",
          "text": "Owing to the comparative nearness to London and populous home county centres, road competition is keen for goods as well as summer passenger business.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 October 12, Ian Warren, “How the Conservatives lost their home counties heartland”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Think home counties, and the sorts of things that come to mind are blue-rinse, golf courses and village halls. This is a stereotype we need to reconsider based on the latest demographic shifts we are seeing in and around London.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of the counties that surround London in the south-east of England."
      ],
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          "county"
        ],
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          "London",
          "London"
        ],
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          "England",
          "England"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(often in the plural) Any of the counties that surround London in the south-east of England."
      ],
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  "word": "home county"
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