ˌcounty ˈtownBritish EnglishBrE, county seat American English noun [countableC]
SGthe town in a county where its government is 郡首府;县首府
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county town• Northampton was another elegantcounty town and regional market centre and was known far and wide for its horsefairs.• Chester, a flourishingcounty town, had the King's School founded in 1541.• Louth's county town, Dundalk, is very near Belfast.• Even the smallest county town could become the Mecca of the surplusruralpopulation.• Salisbury, quietcathedral city, the county town of Wiltshire near to which is the village in which Mr Pecksniff lives.• Not only was Buckinghamshire small, its inadequateinternalcommunicationsserved to check the evolution of a true county town.