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Vinony

Sussex

proper noun

  1. place name
  2. family name
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈsʌs.ɪks/

name

Etymology: Inherited from Old English Sūþseaxan (literally “South Saxons”), which stood for both Sussex and its people. The town in New Brunswick may have been named after Sussex, New Jersey. The civil parish is named after the town.

  1. A placename.
  2. A placename.

    “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.”

  3. A placename.
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  8. A placename.
  9. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Inherited from Old English Sūþseaxan (literally “South Saxons”), which stood for both Sussex and its people. The town in New Brunswick may have been named after Sussex, New Jersey. The civil parish is named after the town.

  1. A British breed of dual-purpose chicken, reared both for its meat and for its eggs.

    “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.”