Sussex

plural Sussexes

1. A placename.
   1. countableuncountableA former county of south-east England, England, United Kingdom, now divided into East and West Sussex), then bordered by Surrey, Kent, Hampshire and the English Channel.

      Synonyms: Sussexshire

   2. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of University of Sussex.

      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.

      2017 October 10, Vanessa Potter, “My sudden synesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colors”, in CNN, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2025

   3. countableuncountableA civil parish of Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
   4. countableuncountableA town in New Brunswick, Canada.
   5. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Sussex Drive and Sussex Street: a street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on which the residence of the Prime Minister of Canada and the Governor General of Canada are located.
   6. countableuncountableA borough in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States.
   7. countableuncountableA census-designated place, the county seat of Sussex County, Virginia, United States.
   8. countableuncountableA village in Wisconsin, United States.
2. countableA surname.

plural Sussexes

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

   In the USSR, Sussexes are distributed in the western and southern parts of the Ukrainian SSR.

   1968, Ė. Ė Penionzhkevich, Poultry: Biology, Breeds and Breeding, page 192

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   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.

   1967, Folia Biologica, page 124

   Grouped around the fowl of the second class (see Fig. 3) are such breeds as White Plymouth Rock, Light Sussex, White Cornish, and Kuchinskaya yubileinaya – all meat breeds, apart from the sussexes; […]

   1984, Soviet Genetics, page 534

   Spring and summer were more kind and the flock multipled,^([sic]) although no purebred Sussexes had survived the winter.

   1985, Peter Gzowski, The Morningside Papers, McClelland and Stewart in association with CBC Enterprises, published 1986, →ISBN, page 29

   In this group fall the medium-size breeds, such as the Plymouth Rocks, Reds, New Hampshires, Sussexes, Orpingtons, Australorps, and others.

   1986, Collier’s Encyclopedia, page 217

   Brown eggs come from white Plymouth Rock chickens, New Hampshire chickens, white and dark Cornish chickens, Rhode Island reds, barred Plymouth Rock chickens, and light Sussexes.

   1995 November/December, Paula Poundstone, “Letters to Paula”, in Mother Jones, page 79