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Meaning of Sussex | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈsʌs.ɪks

Definitions

  1. A placename.
  2. A former county of south-east England, England, United Kingdom, now divided into East and West Sussex), then bordered by Surrey, Kent, Hampshire and the English Channel.
  3. A British breed of dual-purpose chicken, reared both for its meat and for its eggs.
  4. Ellipsis of University of Sussex.
  5. A civil parish of Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
  6. A town in New Brunswick, Canada.
  7. Ellipsis of Sussex Drive and Sussex Street: a street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on which the residence of the Prime Minister of Canada and the Governor General of Canada are located.
  8. A borough of New Jersey, United States.
  9. A census-designated place, the county seat of Sussex County, Virginia, United States.
  10. A village in Wisconsin, United States.
  11. A surname.

Equivalents

Čeština sussexský
Ελληνικά Σάσεξ Σάσσεξ
Français Sussex
ქართული სასექსი
Polski Sussex

Examples

“Daniel Hajas is a physics undergraduate at Sussex and has been blind since he was 16. He first heard about Giles and the SSDs when Giles was looking for blind students to test the devices.”
“In the blood of the four groups of birds examined, (viz. purebred Sussexes and Bantams and their reciprocal hybrids) distinct differences were found of the content of DNA and RNA between the Sussexes and the three remaining groups.”
“In the USSR, Sussexes are distributed in the western and southern parts of the Ukrainian SSR.”
“Grouped around the fowl of the second class (see Fig. 3) are such breeds as White Plymouth Rock, Light Sussex, White Cornish, and Kuchinskaya yubileinaya – all meat breeds, apart from the sussexes; […]”
“Spring and summer were more kind and the flock multipled,^([sic]) although no purebred Sussexes had survived the winter.”
“In this group fall the medium-size breeds, such as the Plymouth Rocks, Reds, New Hampshires, Sussexes, Orpingtons, Australorps, and others.”
“Brown eggs come from white Plymouth Rock chickens, New Hampshire chickens, white and dark Cornish chickens, Rhode Island reds, barred Plymouth Rock chickens, and light Sussexes.”
“[“Egg Color”:] Cream eggs [“Chicken”:] Polish, Sussexes, Faverolles”
“Some of the hybrid layers I would recommend are Black Rocks, Skylines, Maran Cuivres, Sussexes, Blacktails, Gold Lines, and Blue and White Leghorns.”
“The couple currently keeps seventeen chickens—Araucanas, some Sebright bantams, Silkies, speckled Sussexes, and a Maran—in a coop built by Brian.”

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