Home Counties

English

Noun

Home Counties pl (plural only)

1. All the English counties surrounding London.
   • 2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:

     From Caro, the British colonel's wife, now ferrying around anti-tear gas solvent kits and bottled water, her toenails painted a riot of different colors, her posh Home Counties diction already absorbing the shortened vowels of our southern African dialect.

References

• “Home Counties”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.