Shire

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “Yorkshire is the largest shire in England.”

2. isim The people living in a shire (noun sense 1.1) considered collectively.

   “You, my love, are a little paragon—positively a little jewel—You have more brains than half the shire— […]”

3. isim The general area in which a person comes from or lives.

   “When are you coming back to the shire?”

4. isim An administrative area or district in other countries.

   “[T]his old Evil-queſtioning asked the Doubters if they vvere all of a Tovvn, (he knevv that they vvere all of one Kingdom)? and they anſvvered no, nor not of one Shire neither; […]”

5. isim An outer suburban or rural local government area which elects its own council.
6. isim Ellipsis of shire horse (“a draught horse of a tall British breed, usually bay, black, or grey”).
7. isim A district or province governed by a person; specifically (Christianity), the province of an archbishop, the see of a bishop, etc.

   “A third Seignorie or Shire there is that goeth to Apamia, vvhich in old time vvas called Celænæ, and aftervvards Ciboron: […]”

8. isim A region; also, a country.

   “And Thyatira. It is a Citie of Lydia which is a ſhyre of Aſia the leſſe, the habitation of the Macedones, and of ſome the laſt Citie of the Myſians.”

9. fiil To constitute or reconstitute (a country or region) into one or more shires (noun sense 1.1) or counties.

   “County Longford was shired in 1586.”

10. özel isim A surname.
11. özel isim A placename
12. özel isim A river in Malawi and Mozambique