county fair

noun

: a fair usually held annually at a set location in a county especially to exhibit local agricultural products and livestock

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America is your neighbors volunteering to run local elections or joining the PTA or helping out with a Main Street parade or a county fair or a town-wide fish fry. Billy Ray, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025 Her father had bought it at the county fair; the vender, mistaking it for yet another replica Native ceremonial mask, had all but given it away. David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025 The heart of the issue here, Larson said, is that Ramsey County is misguided in seeking to avoid differential treatment for the fair versus other outside organizations, because a county fair fundamentally is different from other outside organizations, legally speaking. Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025 Once the colonies began developing governments and counties, county fairs took off. Ayana Archie, NPR, 27 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for county fair

Word History

First Known Use

1772, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of county fair was in 1772

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“County fair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/county%20fair. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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