Sussex

[ suhs-iks ]

/ ˈsʌs ɪks /

a former county in SE England: divided into East Sussex and West Sussex.

one of an English breed of red beef cattle.

one of an English breed of chickens, raised chiefly for marketing as roasters.

a kingdom of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy in SE England.

Example sentences from the Web for sussex

Davies is a freelancer “so I hide out in my study down in deepest Sussex.”

Murdoch on the Rocks: How a Lone Reporter Revealed the Mogul's Tabloid Terror Machine |Clive Irving |August 25, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But the first time I remember was at Sussex Camp for Underprivileged Jewish Children.

Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview |Alex Belth |February 16, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
In fact, the Brighton branch is being set up by Anita and Stuart Balkham, a married couple who live in Sussex.

Sunday Assembly Is the Hot New Atheist Church |Nico Hines |September 21, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
He then drove hell for leather to Uckfield, Sussex, where he had some whiskey with his friend Susan Maxwell-Scott.

Lord Lucan’s Whereabouts: The Tabloid Rebirth of a Decades-Old Crime |William Coles |February 25, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

Mrs. Henry Dudeney's new novel is a delightful story of the Sussex Downs.

A Young Man's Year |Anthony Hope
Sussex backs gave place in time to the grate in which a metal back was frequently incorporated, flanked by the dogs in front.

Chats on Household Curios |Fred W. Burgess
The mothers of Sussex look round to count their chicks—I mean those young gamecocks that waited on her.

Rewards and Fairies |Rudyard Kipling
In Sussex there are two villages not very far apart—one is called Friston, the other Alfriston.

A Leisurely Tour in England |James John Hissey
This was the ethnical composition of the Sussex population at the date of the first Roman invasions.

Science in Arcady |Grant Allen

Sussex

/ (ˈsʌsɪks) /

(until 1974) a county of SE England, now divided into the separate counties of East Sussex and West Sussex

(in Anglo-Saxon England) the kingdom of the South Saxons, which became a shire of the kingdom of Wessex in the early 9th century a.d

a breed of red beef cattle originally from Sussex

a heavy and long-established breed of domestic fowl used principally as a table bird