Shire
31shire — /shayMr/ A Saxon word which signified a division; it was made up of an indefinite number of hundreds later called a county (Comitatus). In England, a county. So called because every county or shire is divided and parted by certain metes and… …
32shire — [OE] The original meaning of shire, which did not survive beyond the Old English period, was ‘official charge, administrative office’, and it has been suggested that the word is related ultimately to Latin cūra ‘care, charge’ (source of English… …
33shire — noun /ʃaɪə(ɹ)/ a) Former administrative area of Britain; a county. Yorkshire is the largest shire in England. b) 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? …
34shire — UK [ˈʃaɪə(r)] / US [ʃaɪr] noun [countable] Word forms shire : singular shire plural shires a county in the UK. This word is used in the names of some UK counties Hampshire …
35shire — n. Brit. 1 a county. 2 (the Shires) a a group of English counties with names ending or formerly ending in shire, extending NE from Hampshire and Devon. b the midland counties of England. c the fox hunting district of mainly Leicestershire and… …
36shire — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English scīr office, shire; akin to Old High German scīra care Date: before 12th century 1. an administrative subdivision; especially a county in England 2. any of an old breed of large heavy draft horses… …
37Shire — Orig. a sphere of jurisdiction or command; thus the area over which such authority was exercised. The earliest shires (in Wessex) were commanded by ealdormen; by the late 10c, when the ealdorman s powers were more extensive, they were… …
38shire — noun Shire is used before these nouns: ↑horse …
39SHIRÉ — a river of East Africa, flows out of Lake Nyassa, and passes in a southerly course through the Shiré Highlands, a distance of 370 m., till it joins the Zambesi; discovered by Livingstone …
40Shire — English county. The shire court conduct the administrative, judicial and financial business of of people living in the county …
