shire

/ˈʃʌɪə/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈʃʌɪə/

shire

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

US voice -> shire

Myanmar meaning

(arch) မြို့နယ်(ယခုအချို့မြို့နယ်အမည် တွင်ပါဝင်သည့် စကားလုံး Hampshire, Yorkshire )။

Full entry

shire /'ʃaÇǝ(r) or, in compounds , -ʃǝ(r)/ n (Brit )

၁။ [C] (arch ) မြို့နယ်(ယခုအချို့မြို့နယ်အမည် တွင်ပါဝင်သည့် စကားလုံး Hampshire, Yorkshire )။
၂။ the shires (also the shire counties ) [pl] အင်္ဂလန် အလယ်ပိုင်းရှိ တောပိုင်းမှ မြို့အချို့။
❏ shire-horse n ဝန်စည်များဆွဲသည့် အားကောင်းသော မြင်းကြီး မျိုး။

More examples

‘What is lacking, however, is a map of all the counties and shires across the archipelago, given the number of references to them in Smith's narrative.’
‘From the battlements, she can look over a bend in the River Thames, across the treetops to Eton College and out over farms, villages and shires of Berks and Bucks.’
‘Labour will represent the rural shires and the Conservatives can try Sheffield.’
‘Plans to revive traditional shire county names has received a favourable response in Westmorland.’
‘In three out of ten questions asked, Wiltshire was top of all shire counties in England.’
‘Meanwhile, he's enjoying the English shires - Essex and Leicester.’
‘"This has been interpreted as a precursor to the demise of the three shire counties.’
‘At first, they thought of moving out into one of the shires.’
‘The English shires will disappear and another bit of our heritage will be lost.’
‘I'm looking forward to the conference tomorrow, mainly for a chance to hear from more people from the surrounding Shires.’
‘Sessions of the shire court were held under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners for each circuit.’
‘Chaps who came double-barrelled in girth as well as surname, their powerbases were in the shires and they had had a good war.’
‘There's even a polite cheer from the family from the shires who are sitting directly behind us in the stalls.’
‘Our fellow guests, two couples from the Shires, join us and soon the house party is in full swing.’
‘In the bar you might find yourself standing next to a TV personality, a Bristol barrister, an Italian actress or land-owning couple from the shires.’
‘We have a lot of buildings that were built over 100 years ago and cannot compare with the leafy shires.’
‘It looks like it's been written by a teenage girl from the shires.’
‘The shires are up in arms, with many staging a campaign of passive resistance, only prepared to pay reasonable inflation-linked increases to their bills.’
‘Its average member is 65 years old - mainly wealthy retirees concentrated in the rural Shires.’
‘To have the tally-hoes of the English shires coming in droves to Ireland's hunting counties would severely disrupt the relationship between the hunts and the landowners.’

Synonyms

area, arena, bailiwick, belt, block, business, calling, canton, capacity, champaign, charge, clearing, colony, concern, constituency, country, county, demesne, department, dependency, district, division, domain, domain; scope, dominion, duty, employment, environs, expanse, field, function, ghetto, ground, inner city, jungle, jurisdiction, land, line, locale, locality, neck of woods, neighborhood, office, orbit, part, place, post, precinct, province, pursuit, quarter, range, realm, region, responsibility, role, scene, section, sector, sphere, stomping ground, suburb, terrain, territory, tract, turf, vicinity, walk, ward, work, world, zone

Antonyms

avocation, entertainment, fun, metropolis, recreation, retreat, sky, unemployment, whole