Hampshire

Definitions: Hampshire

Hampshire

Noun

1. A county of southern England on the English Channel.

2. British breed of hornless dark-faced mutton sheep.

Date "Hampshire" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	A)a range utilisable at any time of the year; b)a range utilised throughout the year, i. e. under continuous grazing. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Hampshire is a County on the south coast of England. Major settlements include Southampton, Bournemouth, Winchester, Basingstoke, Andover, Aldershot, Portsmouth, and Farnborough. The latter three have strong military associations with the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force respectively.

The county has in the past been called "Southamptonshire" and appears as such on some Victorian maps. The short form of the name, often used in postal addresses, is Hants. Hampshire County Council is based in Winchester, a historic city that was once the capital of the ancient kingdom of Wessex. Southampton and Portsmouth are both major ports. There is an international airport with its own rail station between Southampton and Eastleigh. Hampshire is a popular holiday area, with tourist attractions including its many seaside resorts, the maritime area in Portsmouth, and the motor museum at Beaulieu. The New Forest lies within the borders, as does a large chunk of the South Downs - there are plans to make both of these areas into national parks.

The Isle of Wight is part of the County, even though since 1974 it has been administered as a separate administrative county for local government purposes. At the same time the administrative county border with Dorset was changed so that Bournemouth was administered by Dorset County Council rather than Hampshire. Since 1997, the cities of Portsmouth and Southampton have been administered as unitary authorities rather than by Hampshire County Council, and are no longer part of the administrative area of Hampshire, although they dom of course, remain part of the County. Residents still refer to the historic County borders, which are used for postal addresses, sports teams etc., and not those used for administrative purpose.

Hampshire is divided into a number of districts for the purposes of local goverment, and these are Basingstoke and Deane, East Hampshire, Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Hart, Havant, New Forest, Rushmoor, Test Valley and Winchester.

The 2001 census gave the population of rump Hampshire (as of 1997) as 1.24 million; the population including Portsmouth and Southampton was around 1.6 million.

New Hampshire is named after Hampshire.

Cities, towns, and villages

Aldershot, Alresford, Alton, Andover, Ansty
Barton on Sea, Basingstoke, Beaulieu, Bishop's Waltham, Bordon, Brockenhurst
Dibden Purlieu
East End, Lymington, Hampshire, East End, Petersfield, Hampshire, Eastleigh, Easton, Emsworth, Exton
Fareham, Farnborough, Fawley, Fleet, Fordingbridge, Fyfield
Gosport, Greatham
Hambledon, Havant, Hayling Island, Highcliffe, Holt End, Hook, Hursley, Hythe
Langley, Lee-on-the-Solent, Liphook, Liss, Little London, Andover, Hampshire, Little London (Tadley), Long Common, Lymington, Lyndhurst
Martin, Milford on Sea, Mount Pleasant
Netherton, New Alresford, Newbridge, New Milton
Nursling
Odiham
Petersfield, Portsmouth
Ringwood, Romsey
Shirrell Heath, Southampton, Stockbridge, Southsea
Tadley, Totton, Turgis Green, Twyford
Waterlooville, Whitchurch, Wickham, Winchester
Yateley

Places of interest

Beaulieu Abbey and the National Motor Museum
HMS Victory
Mottisfont Abbey
New Forest Museum
River Avon
River Hamble
River Meon
River Test
Silchester
Southampton Water
South Downs Way, a long distance footpath

External link

Hampshire County Council

Hampshire is also a village in the State of Illinois in the United States of America; see Hampshire, Illinois.

Synonym: Hampshire

Synonym: Hampshire down (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Hampshire

English words defined with "Hampshire": capital of New Hampshire, Concord, Connecticut, Connecticut River ♦ decide ♦ Hampshire down ♦ ingeniously ♦ Manchester, Merrimack, Merrimack River, Mountain sorrel ♦ New England, New Hampshire, New Hampshirite ♦ Portsmouth ♦ Solent ♦ the Solent ♦ Winchester. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Hampshire": 38461 ♦ 60140 ♦ Archers ♦ cooperative banks ♦ Dataparallel-C ♦ Jacob the Scourge of Grammar, JANUARY 1 ♦ Live Free Or Die! ♦ Minor civil division ♦ Region -- Northeast, Regions, Geographic ♦ Saxon Shore ♦ THAW ♦ Wans Dyke. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Hampshire" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (Hampshire).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Normally I go out with girls who talk so much you could hook them up to a wind turbine and they could power a small New Hampshire town. (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz) New Hampshire. I spent a year there one weekend. (Law & Order; writing credit: Peter Yeldham) It looks like you'll be going to New Hampshire after all. (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks)
Movie/TV Titles	New Hampshire Amoskeag Veterans (1897) The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
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Domain	Title
References	Hampshire Group, Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Flyfisher's Guide to Northern New England: Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine (The Wilderness Adventures Flyfisher's Guide Series) (reference) Lighthouses of New England: Your Guide to the Lighthouses of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut (Pictorial d (reference) New Hampshire Atlas and Gazetteer : Topographic Maps of the (reference) Not Without Peril : One Hundred and Fifty Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of New Hampshire (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Business New Hampshire Magazine (reference) Code Of New Hampshire Rules : Index (reference) Daily Hampshire Gazette (reference) Hampshire Family Historian (reference) Hampshire Review (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	New Hampshire Foliage Tour (reference) The Hotel New Hampshire (reference) Murder in New Hampshire (reference) Hotel New Hampshire (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Choose Your Partners!: Contra Dance & Square Dance Music of New Hampshire (reference) New Hampshire (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	New Hampshire.Credit: NASA.
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Author	Quotation
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring ... Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill ...
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Author	Date	Quotation
US Constitution	1791	The Virginia commissioners, after some correspondence, fixed the first Monday in September as the time, and the city of Annapolis as the place for the meeting, but only four other States were represented, viz: Delaware, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; the commissioners appointed by Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Rhode Island failed to attend. (reference)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	1963	So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1933)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Recent outbreaks of WN virus encephalitis in humans have occurred in Algeria in 1994, Romania in 1996-1997, the Czech Republic in 1997, the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1998, Russia in 1999, the United States in 1999-2001, and Israel in 2000. Epizootics of disease in horses occurred in Morocco in 1996, Italy in 1998, the United States in 1999-2001, and France in 2000. In the U.S. through July 2001, WN virus has been documented in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Ohio, and the District of Columbia. (references)
Economic History	Estonia	Area: 45,226 sq. km. (18,086 sq. miles); about the size of New Hampshire and Vermont. (references)
	Switzerland	Area: 41,285 sq. km. (15,941 sq. mi.); about the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined. (references)
	Dominican Republic	Area: 48,442 sq. km. (18,704 sq. mi.), about the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined. (references)
Trade	Egypt	The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD): frequently called the "World Bank," was conceived in July 1944 at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
John E. Sununu	Well, look, people in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue. There's a lot of Democrat rhetoric going back years, scare tactics, trying to scare seniors about Social Security.
Robert Novak	We have to take a break. But when we come back, we'll interview the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat from New Hampshire, Congressman John Sununu.
Tom Daschle	I haven't been to New Hampshire. I've been to Iowa to help Tom Harkin, my colleague, to get reelected, but that's all I've done so far.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Hampshire" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hampshire" is used about 1,196 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	1,196	6,471

The following table summarizes the usage of "Hampshire" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Hampshire	Last name	400	21,543
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Country	Name
USA	Hampshire Funding, Inc.
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1. Hampshire, IL (village, FIPS 32525)
Location: 42.09579 N, 88.52173 W
Population (1990): 1843 (653 housing units)
Area: 6.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 60140
Country: USA

2. Hampshire, TN
Zip Code(s): 38461
Country: USA

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Expressions: Hampshire

Expressions using "Hampshire": capital of New Hampshire ♦ Hampshire County ♦ Hampshire down ♦ new Hampshire. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Hampshire": hampshire-based, hampshire-born.
	Ending with "Hampshire": Dorset-hampshire, Surrey-hampshire.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hampshire

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
new hampshire	3,817
portsmouth new hampshire	2,578
concord new hampshire	1,791
inn new hampshire	1,131
rochester new hampshire	635
map new hampshire	579
university of new hampshire	546
dover new hampshire	491
state of new hampshire	486
bank of new hampshire	470
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hampshire

Language		Translations for "Hampshire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		汉普郡. (various references)

Danish		Hampshire, H. (various references)

Farsi		نژادخوک سیاه امریکاءی(ج.ش.). (various references)

German		Hampshire. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ニュートン力学 (New Brunswick, new business, new face, new fashion, new frontier, New Hampshire, new media, New Media Community, New Mexico, new mode, new music, new poor, new voice, New York, New York City, Newfoundland, Newtonian mechanics, The New York Times, The New Yorker, transsexual or transvestite performer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ニューハンプシャー (New Hampshire). (various references)

Korean		햄�"��". (various references)

Pig Latin		ampshirehay.(various references)

Russian		хэмпшир. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		hempšir. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Hampshire

Misspellings
	"Hampshire" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hamshire, hamsphire, Humpshire. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Hampshire

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-h-i-m-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: samphire, seraphim.
	-2 letters: hampers, harpies, impresa, mishear, rhaphes, sharpie.
	-3 letters: aimers, armies, ashier, aspire, ephahs, hamper, harems, hermai, ihrams, marish, masher, mashie, mishap, paries, parish, perish, phrase, praise, primas, primes, ramies, raphes, raphis, rehash, remaps, reship, rhaphe, seraph, shaper, sherpa, shmear, shrimp, simper, spirea, spirem.
	-4 letters: aimer, amies, amirs, apers, aphis, apish, apres, arise, asper, emirs, ephah, ephas, haems, hairs, hames, harem, hares, harms, harps, harsh, heaps, hears, heirs, hemps, herma, herms, hires, ihram, mairs, mares, marse, marsh, maser, mires, miser, pairs, paise, pares, paris, parse, pears, peris, perms, phase, piers, pimas, prams, prase, presa, pries, prima, prime, prims, prise, prism, raise, ramie, ramps, rapes, raphe, reams, reaps, remap, rheas, rimes, ripes, sepia, serai, shame, shape, share, sharp, shear, shier, shire, simar, smear, spahi, spare, spear, speir, sperm, spier, spire.
	-5 letters: ahem, aims, airs, amie, amir, amis, amps, aper, apes, apse, ares, arms, arse, ears, emir, epha, eras, haem, haes, hahs, hair, hame, hams, haps, hare, harm, harp, hash, hasp, heap, hear, hehs, heir, hemp, hems, herm, hers, hies, hips, hire, imps, ires, maes, mair, maps, mare, mars, mash, mesa, mesh, mire, mirs, mise, pair, pams, pare, pars, pase, pash, pear, peas, pehs, peri, perm, phis, pias, pier, pies, pima, pish, pram, prim, rami, ramp, rams, rape, raps, rase, rash, rasp, ream, reap, reis, rems, reps, resh, rhea, rias, rime, rims, ripe, rips, rise, same, samp, sari, seam, sear, semi, sera, shah, sham, shea, shim, ship, shri, sima, simp, sipe, sire, spae, spam, spar.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-h-i-m-p-r-s"
	+3 letters: horsemanship, hypothermias.
	+4 letters: amphitheaters, hemispherical, horsemanships, hyperthermias, mythographies.
	+5 letters: chemotherapies, chemotherapist, headmastership, hermaphrodites, lymphographies, thermographies, xerophthalmias.
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