Anagram Solver

Definitions for Shire

[1] one of the counties of Great Britain.
[2] the Shires, the counties in the Midlands in which hunting is especially popular.
[3] one of an English breed of large, strong draft horses having a usually brown or bay coat with white markings.
[4] a river in SE Africa, flowing S from Lake Malawi to the Zambezi River. 370 miles (596 km) long.
[5] one of the British counties (in combination ) Yorkshire
[6] (in Australia) a rural district having its own local council
[7] See shire horse
[8] the Midland counties of England, esp Northamptonshire and Leicestershire, famous for hunting, etc
[9] (tr) Ulster dialect to refresh or rest let me get my head shired
[10] a river in E central Africa, flowing from Lake Malawi through Malawi and Mozambique to the Zambezi. Length: 596 km (370 miles)

Words related to Shire

district, zone, region, colony, county, part, department, territory, province, sector, land, neighborhood, suburb, country, locality, field, place, world, duty, domain

Words nearby Shire

shipwreck, shipwright, shipyard, shiralee, shiraz, shire, shire highlands, shire horse, shirer, shirk, shirker

Origin of Shire

1875–80; apparently so called because it was bred in the shires, i.e., those counties of west and central England whose names end in -shire

Other words from Shire

sub·shire , noun
un·der·shire , noun

Word origin for Shire

from Old English scīr clear

Synonyms for Shire

colony, county, department, district, part, region, territory, zone, arena, bailiwick, business, calling, canton, capacity, champaign, charge, concern, demesne, dependency, division, domain, dominion, duty, employment, field, function, jurisdiction, line, office, orbit, post, pursuit, realm, role, section, sphere, terrain, tract, walk, work