Grafschaft — 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

Grafschaft is used for these senses in English:

• county (historical) The land ruled by a count or a countess.
• county An administrative or geographical region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and 47 of the 50 United States (excluding Alaska, Connecticut, and Louisiana).
• 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.

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