shire

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ʃaɪə/    美 /ʃaɪ(ə)ɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. UK,historical
    — Yorkshire is the largest shire in England.
  2. The people living in a shire (noun sense 1.1) considered collectively. UK,broadly
    — You, my love, are a little paragon—positively a little jewel—You have more brains than half the shire— […]
  3. The general area in which a person comes from or lives. UK,broadly,informal
    — When are you coming back to the shire?
  4. An administrative area or district in other countries. broadly
    — [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. An administrative area or district in other countries.; An outer suburban or rural local government area which elects its own council. Australia,attributive,broadly,often
  6. Ellipsis of shire horse (“a draught horse of a tall British breed, usually bay, black, or grey”). abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  7. A district or province governed by a person; specifically (Christianity), the province of an archbishop, the see of a bishop, etc. obsolete
    — A third Seignorie or Shire there is that goeth to Apamia, vvhich in old time vvas called Celænæ, and aftervvards Ciboron: […]
  8. A region; also, a country. broadly,obsolete
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To constitute or reconstitute (a country or region) into one or more shires (noun sense 1.1) or counties. transitive
    — County Longford was shired in 1586.

词形变化

shires plural shires present,singular,third-person shiring participle,present shired participle,past shired past

词汇关系

衍生词
Bedfordshire Blankshire Four Shire Stone knight of the shire Loamshire Monmouthshire -shire shire horse Shireman shiremote shiremoot Shire Oak shire-reeve Shires shire town Yorkshire
相关词
sheriff

词源

词源 1
The noun is derived from Middle English schire (“region, shire, county”) [and other forms], from Old English sċīr (“administrative region under an alderman and sheriff, shire; district under a governor or official; status of an official, office”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *skīru (“district; status of an official, office”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to Latin cūra (“care, concern; administration, charge, management; command, office”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed; to see”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
词源 2
The noun is derived from Middle English schire (“region, shire, county”) [and other forms], from Old English sċīr (“administrative region under an alderman and sheriff, shire; district under a governor or official; status of an official, office”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *skīru (“district; status of an official, office”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to Latin cūra (“care, concern; administration, charge, management; command, office”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed; to see”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
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