shire
noun
one of the counties of Great Britain.
shires
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pluralof shire.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Labour loyalists and spin doctors will emphasise what is true – the elections being fought at council level are "us fighting in the shires", as one of them said.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025
It is one of the society’s 20 kingdoms in North America, each of which is subdivided into provinces, baronies and shires.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2018
The 1,200 constituents who showed up for his forum — residents of Hollywood, Burbank, Silver Lake — are terrified of what’s been wrought by the faraway shires of Oshkosh, Grand Rapids, Erie and Dayton.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2017
Railing at wind farms from his perch in his favorite pub in the Kent countryside, Farage tries to articulate the fading voice of the English shires.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 11, 2013
It may be noted that, though these units were designated as shires in the Act of the General Assembly creating them, they were, after that, always called counties.
From How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation by Martha Woodroof Hiden
