graafschap — meaning in English

English meaning

• county noun An administrative or geographic division within a country or state.
• shire noun A county or administrative region, especially in England or Australia.

Senses

graafschap is used for these senses in English:

• shire (chiefly, historical) An 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.

shire — full definition

1. noun A county or administrative region, especially in England or Australia.
2. verb To divide a region into shires or counties.