Somerset
pronunciation
How to pronounce Somerset in British English:
UK 
How to pronounce Somerset in American English:
US
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- Noun:
- a county in southwestern England on the Bristol Channel
Word Origin
- Somerset
- 9c., Sumor sæton, from Old English sumorsæta, short for *sumorton sæte "the people who live at (or depend upon) Somerton," a settlement attested from 8c. (Sumertone), literally "summer settlement." In 12c. it begins to be clearly meant as a place-name (Sumersetescir) not a collective name for a set of people.
Example
- 1. The riversimple urban car was unveiled today at somerset house in london , is a new hydrogen-powered vehicle .
- 2. Strangely , however , the only authority that did not submit a witness statement was somerset county council .
- 3. Wells cathedral , church of england , in wells , somerset .
- 4. After seven years on the road without ever returning home , this married couple from somerset have already beaten the record for the longest continuous motorbike ride in history .
- 5. A spokesman for the bath and north east somerset nhs said samuel had been receiving treatment for pneumococcal meningitis at the paediatric intensive children 's unit at bristol royal hospital for children .