Shirename

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  A surname.

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  A placename.

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  A placename.

Shirenoun

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  A breed of draught horse; an individual of this breed.

  • The Shire was a favorite on this estate.
  • This estate kept a stable of Shires for the heavier work.

shirenoun/ʃaɪə/

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  historicalAn 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.

  • Yorkshire is the largest shire in England.
  • I thanke his grace he hath appointed him, / Chiefe colonell of all thoſe companies / Muſtred in London, and the ſhires about, / To ſerue his highneſſe in thoſe warres of France: […]
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  The people living in a shire (noun sense 1.1) considered collectively.

  • You, my love, are a little paragon—positively a little jewel—You have more brains than half the shire— […]
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  informalThe general area in which a person comes from or lives.

  • When are you coming back to the shire?
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  An administrative area or district in other countries.

  • [T]his old Evil-queſtioning asked the Doubters if they vvere all of a Tovvn, (he knevv that they vvere all of one Kingdom)? and they anſvvered no, nor not of one Shire neither; […]
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  An administrative area or district in other countries.

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  obsoleteA district or province governed by a person; specifically (Christianity), the province of an archbishop, the see of a bishop, etc.

  • A third Seignorie or Shire there is that goeth to Apamia, vvhich in old time vvas called Celænæ, and aftervvards Ciboron: […]
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  obsoleteA region; also, a country.

  • And Thyatira. It is a Citie of Lydia which is a ſhyre of Aſia the leſſe, the habitation of the Macedones, and of ſome the laſt Citie of the Myſians.
  • His blazing eyes, like tvvo bright ſhining ſhieldes, / Did burne vvith vvrath, and ſparkled liuing fyre; / As tvvo broad Beacons, ſett in open fieldes, / Send forth their flames far of to euery ſhyre, […]

shireverb/ʃaɪə/

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  To constitute or reconstitute (a country or region) into one or more shires (noun sense 1.1) or counties.

  • County Longford was shired in 1586.
  • [I]t made no Matter, if the Countrie vvere never ſhired, nor her Majesties VVritt othervviſe curraunt then it is; for humblye he kepeth all his People ſubiect to Obedience and good Order; […]

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• shire horse