- 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 | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Towns regions: parts of countries (Definition of shire from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
- Shire - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shire is the most common word in Australia for the smallest local government areas by population The states of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia use shire for this unit
- Shire | County, Rural Districts Boroughs | Britannica
Shire, in Great Britain, a county The Anglo-Saxon shire (Old English scir) was an administrative division next above the hundred and seems to have existed in the south in the time of Alfred the Great (871–899) and to have been fully established by the reign of Edgar (959–975)
- 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 . . .
shire, n meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary
- 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
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