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What does Caithness mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Caithness? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. a historic county in the far north of Scotland, which was abolished and merged into Highland Region in 1975, which became the Highland council area in 1996.
  2. a Scottish earldom.
Name
  1. A male given name of Old English origin.
    1. (meaning, history) From Shakespeare's play Macbeth.
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A new website from a Caithness based pilot is providing Orcadians with views of the country from a dramatically different angle.
Two other engines were built by Rickett, one of them for the Earl of Caithness.
The local Tory party in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross was due yesterday to take a decision on whether to adopt him as a candidate.
Grimond was adopted as candidate for Orkney and Shetland, having only seen the cliffs of Hoy while in Caithness on a grouse shoot.
She heads for the northern-most part of mainland Britain, to Caithness, in north-eastern Scotland.
Caithness is well known to archaeologists for its Neolithic chambered burial cairns.

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