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Shire meaning in English
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Shire
see synonyms of shireNoun
1. shire
a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Shire
see synonyms of shirenoun
1.
a.
one of the British counties
b.
(in combination)
Yorkshire
2.
(in Australia) a rural district having its own local council
3. shire horse
4. the Shires
verb
(transitive) Northern Ireland dialect
to refresh or rest
let me get my head shired
noun
a river in E central Africa, flowing from Lake Malawi through Malawi and Mozambique to the Zambezi. Length: 596 km (370 miles)
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Shire
see synonyms of shire river in SE Africa, flowing from Lake Malawi south into the Zambezi: c. 250 mi (402 km)
noun
1.
any of the former districts or regions in Great Britain
2.
any of the counties of England, esp. one with a name ending in -shire
3.
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
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Shire
see synonyms of shiren.
1. A former administrative division of Great Britain, equivalent to a county.
2. often Shire A Shire horse.
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