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"word": "Four Shire Stone"
},
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"word": "knight of the shire"
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"word": "Loamshire"
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{
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"word": "-shire"
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{
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"word": "shire horse"
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{
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"word": "shireman"
},
{
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"word": "shiremote"
},
{
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"word": "shiremoot"
},
{
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"word": "Shire Oak"
},
{
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"word": "shire-reeve"
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{
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"word": "Shires"
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{
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"word": "shire town"
}
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{
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"2": "skíri",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ Icelandic: skíri",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Icelandic: skíri"
}
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"2": "-shire"
},
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"name": "m"
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*kʷeys-"
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"2": "enm",
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"t": "district, province, region; county; people living in a county or region; township or subdivision of some English counties; shire court; session of a shire court"
},
"expansion": "Middle English shire (“district, province, region; county; people living in a county or region; township or subdivision of some English counties; shire court; session of a shire court”)",
"name": "inh"
},
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"1": "chyer, schere, schire, schyr, schyre, scīr, sheere, sher, shir, shyr, shyre, sir, ssire",
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"2": "ang",
"3": "sċīr",
"t": "administrative region under an alderman and sheriff, shire; district under a governor or official; status of an official, office"
},
"expansion": "Old English sċīr (“administrative region under an alderman and sheriff, shire; district under a governor or official; status of an official, office”)",
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"1": "sċiir, sċīre, sċȳr",
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"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*skīru",
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"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *skīru (“district; status of an official, office”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "cūra",
"t": "care, concern; administration, charge, management; command, office"
},
"expansion": "Latin cūra (“care, concern; administration, charge, management; command, office”)",
"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*kʷeys-",
"t": "to heed; to see"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed; to see”)",
"name": "inh"
},
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{
"args": {
"1": "2"
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"name": "sup"
}
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"etymology_text": "The noun is derived from Middle English shire (“district, province, region; county; people living in a county or region; township or subdivision of some English counties; shire court; session of a shire court”) [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”).\nThe verb is derived from the noun.",
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"form": "shires",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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],
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"pos": "noun",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sheriff"
}
],
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"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English English",
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"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "17 4 5 12 12 6 9 20 17",
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"Fundamental"
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"text": "Yorkshire is the largest shire in England.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "a. 1604 (date written), Sampson Erdeswicke, edited by Simon Degge, A Survey of Staffordshire. […], London: […] E[dmund] Curll, […], published 1717, →OCLC, page 211",
"text": "But thus I do conjecture it to be, That at the firſt Unitining of the Heptarchy of the Saxons, and the Shiring out of the Kingdom, it vvas divided into Shires, and the Shires again into Hundreds, as it fell out, in ſome more, in ſome leſs: VVhich Shires (as I have ſaid) the King gave to ſuch as he pleaſed, and to their Heirs, to hold of him by an Earls Fee.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Levi Roach, “Birth and Childhood: The Court of King Edgar, c. 966×9–75”, in Æthelred the Unready, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, page 26",
"text": "The early history of the shire is hard to trace. Already in the ninth century it seems to have been the core administrative division within Wessex. Originally each shire was overseen by an ealdorman, who was charged with raising levies and perhaps also overseeing the local court (though the evidence is scant on the latter point). At the heart of the shire lay the local assembly (the ‘shire court’), at which such business was conducted.",
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"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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"district",
"district#Noun"
],
[
"century",
"century"
],
[
"subdivide",
"subdivide"
],
[
"hundreds",
"hundred#Noun"
],
[
"wapentakes",
"wapentakes"
],
[
"jointly",
"jointly"
],
[
"govern",
"govern"
],
[
"ealdorman",
"ealdorman"
],
[
"sheriff",
"sheriff#Noun"
],
[
"present-day",
"present-day"
],
[
"correspond",
"correspond"
],
[
"historical",
"historical#Adjective"
],
[
"county",
"county#Noun"
],
[
"name",
"name#Noun"
],
[
"ending",
"end#Verb"
],
[
"-shire",
"-shire#English"
]
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"(British)",
"(chiefly historical) 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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"translations": [
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"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "gráfstvo",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "гра́фство"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "hruing:ya:",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"word": "ရှိုင်းယား"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "comtat"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jùn",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"word": "郡"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"word": "夏"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hrabství"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "grevskab"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "graafschap"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"word": "graflando"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"word": "kreivikunta"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "comté"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "condado"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Grafschaft"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"word": "megye"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "skíri"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sír"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "contea"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shaia",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"word": "シャイア"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"alt": "ぐん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gun",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"word": "郡"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "syeo",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"word": "셔"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"word": "sheer"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "goh",
"lang": "Old High German",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"word": "scīra"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"word": "شایر"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hrabstwo"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "condado"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "judet"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ținut"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "šir",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шир"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gráfstvo",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "гра́фство"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "siorrachd"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "siorramachd"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "condado"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "grevskap"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"word": "ไชร์"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "šyr",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"word": "шир"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 5 4 14 14 5 7 5",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
"word": "sir"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The people living in a shire (sense 1.1) considered collectively."
],
"id": "en-shire-en-noun-MTFQjQFk",
"links": [
[
"people",
"person#Noun"
],
[
"living",
"live#Verb"
],
[
"consider",
"consider"
],
[
"collectively",
"collectively"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(British)",
"(by extension) The people living in a shire (sense 1.1) considered collectively."
],
"tags": [
"British",
"broadly"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "10 54 10 5 6 11 3 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "people living in a shire considered collectively",
"word": "kreivikunta"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "When are you coming back to the shire?",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The general area in which a person comes from or lives."
],
"id": "en-shire-en-noun-iFktqHzp",
"links": [
[
"general",
"general#Adjective"
],
[
"comes",
"come#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(British)",
"(by extension, informal) The general area in which a person comes from or lives."
],
"tags": [
"British",
"broadly",
"informal"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "3 5 67 3 4 4 13 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "general area in which a person comes from or lives",
"word": "kotiseutu"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "17 4 5 12 12 6 9 20 17",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Administrative divisions",
"orig": "en:Administrative divisions",
"parents": [
"Government",
"Politics",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An administrative area or district in other countries."
],
"id": "en-shire-en-noun-lpyInJxN",
"links": [
[
"countries",
"country#Noun"
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"word": "ရှိုင်းယား"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "administrative area or district subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; administrative area or district in other countries — see also county",
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{
"code": "is",
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"code": "it",
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"feminine"
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"code": "ja",
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"word": "郡"
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"code": "ko",
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"word": "셔"
},
{
"code": "gv",
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{
"code": "goh",
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"word": "scīra"
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{
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"text": "[I]t made no Matter, if the Countrie vvere never ſhired, nor her Majesties VVritt othervviſe curraunt then it is; for humblye he kepeth all his People ſubiect to Obedience and good Order; […]",
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"text": "[pages 209–210] But vvhether it vvere ſo eſtabliſhed Egbert, Alfred, or Edvvard, vvhen they had brought it to a Monarchy, and Shired it out into parts, or that they vvere appointed Earls in every County, vvhich had an Inheritance therein, and had Juriſdiction, as by the County Court and Sheriffs Turns, it vvould ſeem it vvas: Is the Queſtion I deſire to be reſolved of. […] [page 211] But thus I do conjecture it to be, That at the firſt Unitining of the Heptarchy of the Saxons, and the Shiring out of the Kingdom, it vvas divided into Shires, and the Shires again into Hundreds, as it fell out, in ſome more, in ſome leſs: […]",
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