Shire Definition

shīr
noun
Any of the former districts or regions in Great Britain.
Webster's New World
Any of the counties of England, esp. one with a name ending in -shire.
Webster's New World
A shire horse.
Wiktionary
Any of a breed of large, powerful draft horse with feathery fetlocks, originally raised in the Shires and much used in the Middle Ages as a war horse.
Webster's New World
(UK, colloquial) The general area in which a person lives, used in the context of travel within the UK.
"When are you coming back to the shire?"
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Other Word Forms of Shire

Noun

Singular:
shire
Plural:
shires

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Shire

  • the Shires

Origin of Shire

  • Middle English from Old English scīr official charge, administrative district

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old English scir, from Proto-Germanic *skīrō, *skīzō.

    From Wiktionary

Shire Sentence Examples

  • As a typical example of these organizations the Shire Horse Society may be mentioned.

  • The office, Mark Napier states, is repeatedly mentioned in the family charters as appertaining to the "pultre landis" near the village of Dene in the shire of Linlithgow.

  • Only in a few districts is the climate suitable for Europeans, most of whom live in the Shire Highlands.

  • Barry Links, a triangular sandy track occupying the south-eastern corner of the shire, are used as a camping and manoeuvring ground for the artillery and infantry forces of the district, and occasionally of Scotland.

  • Derbyshire probably originated as a shire in the time of ZEthelstan, but for long it maintained a very close connexion with Nottinghamshire, and the Domesday Survey gives a list of local customs affecting the two counties alike.

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Words Starting With

SSHSHI

Words Ending With

EREIRE

Unscrambles

shire

Words Starting With S and Ending With E

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