shire
n. 郡
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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.
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历史Yorkshire is the largest shire in England.
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2.
The people living in a shire (noun sense 1.1) considered collectively.
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The general area in which a person comes from or lives.
非正式 引申义When are you coming back to the shire?
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An administrative area or district in other countries.
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An administrative area or district in other countries.
An outer suburban or rural local government area which elects its own council.
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澳大利亚 定语 引申义 -
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Ellipsis of shire horse (“a draught horse of a tall British breed, usually bay, black, or grey”).
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A district or province governed by a person; specifically (Christianity), the province of an archbishop, the see of a bishop, etc.
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A region; also, a country.
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To constitute or reconstitute (a country or region) into one or more shires (noun sense 1.1) or counties.
及物County Longford was shired in 1586.
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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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