shire
IPA: ʃˈaɪr
noun
- (Britain)
- (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.
- (by extension) The people living in a shire (sense 1.1) considered collectively.
- (by extension, informal) The general area in which a person comes from or lives.
- (by extension) An administrative area or district in other countries.
- (Australia, often attributive) An outer suburban or rural local government area which elects its own council.
- (obsolete)
- A district or province governed by a person; specifically (Christianity), the province of an archbishop, the see of a bishop, etc.
- (by extension, generally) A region; also, a country.
- A surname.
- Short for shire horse (“a draught horse of a tall British breed, usually bay, black, or grey”). [A draught horse of a tall British breed, usually bay, black, or grey.]
verb
- (transitive) To constitute or reconstitute (a country or region) into one or more shires (noun sense 1.1) or counties.
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Examples of "shire" in Sentences
- The airport is owned by the Bland Shire Council.
- The main industry in the shire is beef production.
- The Shire uses the tag line the green wedge shire .
- The Shire uses the tag line 'the green wedge shire'.
- Shotts was then a dreary moorland place on the Great Road of the Shire.
- These franchises were exempt from the ordinary jurisdiction of the shire.
- The Shire of Cambooya was created by severance from the Shire of Clifton.
- The reeve of an entire shire was a Shire reeve, predecessor to the Sheriff.
- The shire is undivided and the nine councillors represent the entire shire.
- Between the 1920s and 1930s and today, the Shire has changed in conformation.
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