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What (who) is Shires - definition
TRADITIONAL TERM FOR A DIVISION OF LAND, FOUND IN SOME ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES
Shires; Shiring
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1. Brit. a county, especially in England.
(the Shires) the parts of England regarded as strongholds of traditional rural culture, especially the rural Midlands.
2. a medieval administrative district ruled jointly by an alderman and a sheriff.
3. Austral. a rural area with its own elected council.
Origin
OE scir 'care, official charge, county', of Gmc origin.
Shire
·noun A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county.
II. Shire ·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; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire.
shire
(shires)
1.
The Shires or the shire counties are the counties of England that have a lot of countryside and farms.
Smart country people are fleeing back to the shires.
N-COUNT: usu the N in pl
2.
A shire or shire horse is a large heavy horse used for pulling loads. (BRIT)
N-COUNT
Wikipedia
Shire
Shire is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking countries such as Australia. It is generally synonymous with county. It was first used in Wessex from the beginning of Anglo-Saxon settlement, and spread to most of the rest of England in the tenth century. In some rural parts of Australia, a shire is a local government area; however, in Australia it is not synonymous with a "county", which is a lands administrative division.
Examples of use of Shires
1. Money is just draining away from the Tory shires.
2. Yet Forth was hardly an ancient knight of the shires.
3. "It sort of tasted like toilet bowl cleaner," said Dana Shires, one of the researchers.
4. This suggests Labour ought to win some council seats in the towns and shires.
5. This suggests that Labour ought to win some council seats in the towns and shires.