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Nottinghamshire is a county in central England. A lot of it is . It was also known for coal mines, though most of those mines have now closed. The main city is Nottingham. British people, and British newspapers, often the county to Notts. Sherwood Forest, from the Robin Hood stories, is in this county. Though actually, shire is just an old English word for a county, so this name is the same kind of name as Yorkshire or Lancashire: a place plus -shire.
諾丁漢郡（英國中部一郡）
組成Nottingham + -shire. From Nottingham + -shire, an old word for a county.
同家族的字
- Nottinghamthe city the county is named from
- shirethe old word for a county, still used as the ending of many English county names
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Nottinghamshirename/ˈnɒt.ɪŋ.əm.ʃə(ɹ)/
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A north-midland county of England bordered by South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire.
- "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn." "Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。