Definitions for Shire

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Shire shire

Spelling: [shahyuh r]

IPA: /ʃaɪər/

Shire is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in Shire (ehirs).

Definitions for Shire

noun

1. one of the counties of Great Britain.
2. the Shires, the counties in the Midlands in which hunting is especially popular.
3. one of an English breed of large, strong draft horses having a usually brown or bay coat with white markings.
4. a river in SE Africa, flowing S from Lake Malawi to the Zambezi River. 370 miles (596 km) long.

Origin of Shire

before 900; Middle English; Old English scīr office of administration, jurisdiction of such an office, county

Examples for Shire

Glenfinnin is in the shire of Inverness, and the parish of Glenelg.

It was no secret: was ever such a thing secret in the shire of Argyll?

The shire was the scene of much strife after the Reformation.

Yes, they left out Tom Bombadil and the Scouring of the shire.

This whole world is the hundred, while heaven itself is the shire.

Burns will soon be read by lexicon, even in the shire of Ayr.

This was divided into two parts—the shire fee or body, and the members.

This is one of its peculiar institutions; for it is a shire town.

Castle of Carny, in the parish of Moonzie, in the shire of Fife.

That one captain might be named in every shire which might command.