Shire

Meaning of Shire

noun
  1. Physical area administered by a sheriff.
  2. Former administrative area of Britain; a county.
    Yorkshire is the largest shire in England.
  3. The general area in which a person lives or comes from, used in the context of travel within the United Kingdom.
    When are you coming back to the shire?
  4. A rural or outer suburban local government area of Australia.
  5. A shire horse.
verb
  1. To (re)constitute as one or more shires or counties.
    County Longford was shired in 1586

Information about Shire

  • The plural form of Shire is: Shires.
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Hyphenation of Shire

Shire

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • Shire is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of Shire

heirs, hires, hirse, rhies, Sheri, shier

Words that rhyme with Shire

hire, sthenochire, dehire, rehire, jaghire, Sapphire, camphire, samphire, sapphire, shiphire, Aberdeenshire, Argyllshire, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Bedfordshire, Bedlingtonshire, Berkshire, Berwickshire, Brecknockshire, Breconshire, Brookshire, Buckinghamshire, Bushire, Buteshire, Caernarvonshire, Cambridgeshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Carnarvonshire, Cheshire, Clackmannanshire, Denbighshire, Derbyshire, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Dumbartonshire, Dumfriesshire, Dunbartonshire, Fifeshire, Flintshire, Glamorganshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Hamshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Invernessshire, Kincardineshire, Kinrossshire

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