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SHIRE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
British breed of large heavy draft horse
Synonyms:
shire; shire horse
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("shire" is a kind of...):
draft horse; draught horse; dray horse (horse adapted for drawing heavy loads)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("shire" is a kind of...):
administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)
Meronyms (parts of "shire"):
county town; shire town (the town or city that is the seat of government for a shire)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Context examples:
I hope your plans in favour of the —shire will not be affected by his being in the neighbourhood.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
-shire?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was the prospect of constant society, and good society, he added, which was my chief inducement to enter the —shire.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I will even tell you the name of the establishment, where I passed six years as a pupil, and two as a teacher—Lowood Orphan Asylum, —shire: you will have heard of it, Mr. Rivers? —the Rev. Robert Brocklehurst is the treasurer.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Since the —shire were first quartered in Meryton, nothing but love, flirtation, and officers have been in her head.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
At Gateshead; in —shire.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Miss Bingley saw all this likewise; and, in the imprudence of anger, took the first opportunity of saying, with sneering civility: Pray, Miss Eliza, are not the —shire Militia removed from Meryton?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
From Lowood school, in —shire.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
His regiment is there; for I suppose you have heard of his leaving the —shire, and of his being gone into the regulars.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Millcote, —shire; I brushed up my recollections of the map of England, yes, I saw it; both the shire and the town. —shire was seventy miles nearer London than the remote county where I now resided: that was a recommendation to me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
