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sír — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • shire noun A county or administrative region, especially in England or Australia.

Senses

sír 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.
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