0 an area of northeastern Scotland that was a county until 1975 and is now a council area (= an area with its own local government):
That area of Aberdeenshire has a long tradition of producing outstanding personalities.
Norman Halkett, a farmer's son, was born in 1910 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire.
In 1715 he landed at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, during the Jacobite rising.
A committee of Aberdeenshire council rejected the scheme, which was strongly backed by local business but opposed by conservationists.
