Shire

What do we mean by shire?

A former administrative division of Great Britain, equivalent to a county. noun

A Shire horse. noun

An obsolete form of sheer.

A share; a portion. noun

Originally, a division of the kingdom of England under the jurisdiction of an ealdorman, whose authority was intrusted to the sheriff (‘shire-reeve’), on whom the government ultimately devolved; also, in Anglo-Saxon use, in general, a district, province, diocese, or parish; in later and present use, one of the larger divisions into which Great Britain is parted out for political and administrative purposes; a county. noun

A shire-moot. See the quotation under shire-day. noun

A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district. noun

A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county. noun

See under Knight. noun

An officer of a county court; also, an under sheriff. noun

The county court; sheriff's turn, or court. noun

The reeve, or bailiff, of a shire; a sheriff. noun

The capital town of a county; a county town. noun

A county; a shire. noun

Former administrative area of Britain; a county. noun

The general area in which a person lives, used in the context of travel within the UK: noun

A rural or outer suburban local government area of Australia. noun

A shire horse noun

British breed of large heavy draft horse noun

A former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county noun

Physical area administered by a sheriff.

Former administrative area of Britain; a county.

The general area in which a person lives or comes from, used in the context of travel within the United Kingdom.

A rural or outer suburban local government area of Australia.

A shire horse.

Words that are spelled similarly to shire:
shire, share, shine, shirt, shore, hire, sire, shirk, spire, shike, shere, shive, shirr, shite, shie, shure, shide, shir, shime, shirl, swire, shiro, shira, scire, shipe, soire, shiri, stire, shibe, suire.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word shire:
proportionally, moira, macedon, amalgamated, gazetted, cairns, amalgamation, wards, abolished, flinders, severed, chambers, darling, hume, kara, councillor, malawi, warwick, administered, council, governed, proclaimed, tramway, annexed, banana, somali, aboriginal, downs, brisbane, sunshine, victoria, centred, hastings, merged, existed, melbourne, australia, sheriff, ranges, locality, divided, settlements, suburbs, local, merge, perth, municipality, wales, logan, murray, victorian, government, suburb, incorporated, region, swan, area, cent, entity, estimate, wellington, elected, plains, cook, riding, seat, borough, mayor, absorbed, boundaries, covered, town, peninsula, administrative, hall, counties, legislative, mount, sydney, estates, heritage, timber, neighbouring, surrounding, census, covers, douglas, pine, ward, adjacent, capital, rural, parliament, rivers, creek, population, oak.

Words that rhyme with shire:
fire, wire, inspire, dire, require, aspire, ire, inquire, admire, mire, hire, quire, tyre, retire, spire, expire, squire, lyre, haywire, esquire, backfire, afire, skier, crossfire, perspire, eir, hellfire, safire, gunfire, twire, foxfire, gyr, rehire, lancashire, berkshire, biedermeier, brushfire, swire, gire, reacquire, wiltshire, shropshire, devonshire, newswire, maguire, myre, white squire, scire, wyre, mcguire, mcintyre, hyre, wilshire, mcintire, pneumatic tyre, abshire, smyre, alkire, guire, macintyre, set afire, sunfire, untermeyer, darbyshire, schreyer, izaguirre, waymire, whitmire, dwire, mcquire, fesmire, barbed-wire, stoudemire, gardenhire, goldwire, martyre, barkshire, beijer, blackshire, dannemeyer, elvire, foxmeyer, frymire, glenayre, hamsphire, hehmeyer, jurgensmeyer, kastenmeier, obermaier, ohlmeyer, proxmire, pugmire, racamier, retemeyer, rightmire, rothmeier, settlemire, settlemyre, stegemeier, stiegemeier.

Adjectives that are often used to describe shire:
inverness, dumfries, english, kinross, whole, same, native, caithness, single, southern, eoss, neighbouring, modern, lower, york, sweet, angus, western, upper, buckingham, stafford, ancient, northern, west, distant, middle, man, northampton, midland, invemess, the, half, hamp, ross, distinct, scottish, lnverness, somerset, ayr, thorny, haill, devon, attenuated, hereford, remote, neighboring, scarce, warwick, leicester, tributary, saxon, argyle, darby, pleasant, aberdeen, dorset, adjoining, wigton, beloved, wilt, fife, perth, east, adjacent, nottingham, roxburgh.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective shire:
reeve, town, court, moot, buffs, hall, moots, courts, reeves, towns, motes, ground, levies, man, system, journal, folk, house, militia, highlanders, hobbits, gemot, horse, men, mote, advertiser, land, coast, meeting, chiefs, council, horses, regiment, book, lane, oxen, tragedy, family, hog, clans, village, scotland, laird, oak, highlands, gerefa, thegns, parish, levy, grounds, election, hills, stone, chief, stones, organization, boroughs, volunteers, gentry, names, dialect, committee, report, story, formation, waste, administration, halls, knights, rivers, lands, confluence, farmer, petition, reckoning, wonder, kings, representation, witches, bards, lad, obelisks, glens, moonlight, lairds, lads, township, herald, estates, assessor, borough, lochs, river.

Consonant match to shire:
sheer, share, shear, sure, shore, cher, shere, shure, shor, schorr, scheer, shorr, schaar, schor, schar, scherr, schuur, scharr, schear, schehr, sherr.

Words that sound like shire:
shire, shier, shyer, schier, sure, share, shore, shower, sheer, cher, shear, shor, shure, shar, shere, shoer, chir, shair, chere, scheer, shorr, shoar, schor, schorr, schar, schaar, shiur, schauer, scherr, scheuer, schaer, shewer, schere, gyre, gyr, schwer, schnur, schnurr, shy, shiner, sher, shir, shie, shies, shai, shur, shimer, shires, shirr, shr, shirey, scher, shys, schurr, schur, schreier, scheider, scheiner, shirer, schrier, schreyer, scheiber, schleier, hsr, shicer, schei, schneier, scheurer, schmier, chair, cheer, higher, jar, chore, hire, char, chear, hier, chewer, gere, chare, jair, cherr, charr, chaire, jare, hyer, giaour, jahr, gier, hyre, cheir, giere, heier, gehr, hyr, chaar, g.a, charre, cierre.