- Shire - Wikipedia
The suffix -shire is attached to most of the names of English, Scottish and Welsh counties It tends not to be found in the names of shires that were pre-existing divisions
- SHIRE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SHIRE is an administrative subdivision; especially : a county in England
- SHIRE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
A "shire" was a grouping of hundreds, with a similar gathering of its principal men for judicial, military, and fiscal purposes
- SHIRE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
Shire in American English (ʃaiᵊr) noun one of an English breed of large, strong draft horses having a usually brown or bay coat with white markings
- Shire - definition of shire by The Free Dictionary
shire (ʃaɪər) n 1 one of the counties of Great Britain 2 the Shires, the counties in the Midlands in which hunting is esp popular
- shire, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
shire, n meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary
- shire noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
Definition of shire noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
- shire - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
(chiefly historical) An administrative area or district between about the 5th to the 11th century, subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; also, a present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; a county; especially (England), a county having a name ending in -shire quotations
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