shire-reeve in English

Forms: shire-reeves [plural], shirereeve [alternative], shire reeve [alternative] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: From shire + reeve, translating Old English scīrġerēfa (“shire-reeve; sheriff”). Etymology templates: {{compound|en|shire|reeve}} shire + reeve, {{der|en|ang|scīrġerēfa||shire-reeve; sheriff}} Old English scīrġerēfa (“shire-reeve; sheriff”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} shire-reeve (plural shire-reeves)

Inflected forms

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "shire",
        "3": "reeve"
      },
      "expansion": "shire + reeve",
      "name": "compound"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "scīrġerēfa",
        "4": "",
        "5": "shire-reeve; sheriff"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English scīrġerēfa (“shire-reeve; sheriff”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From shire + reeve, translating Old English scīrġerēfa (“shire-reeve; sheriff”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shire-reeves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shirereeve",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shire reeve",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "shire-reeve (plural shire-reeves)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A local official in Mediaeval England appointed by the King to oversee a shire."
      ],
      "id": "en-shire-reeve-en-noun-M-Am0ltd",
      "links": [
        [
          "official",
          "official"
        ],
        [
          "Mediaeval",
          "medieval"
        ],
        [
          "oversee",
          "oversee"
        ],
        [
          "shire",
          "shire"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A local official in Mediaeval England appointed by the King to oversee a shire."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "King's reeve"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shire-reeve"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "shire",
        "3": "reeve"
      },
      "expansion": "shire + reeve",
      "name": "compound"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "scīrġerēfa",
        "4": "",
        "5": "shire-reeve; sheriff"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English scīrġerēfa (“shire-reeve; sheriff”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From shire + reeve, translating Old English scīrġerēfa (“shire-reeve; sheriff”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shire-reeves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shirereeve",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shire reeve",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "shire-reeve (plural shire-reeves)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "King's reeve"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Old English",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A local official in Mediaeval England appointed by the King to oversee a shire."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "official",
          "official"
        ],
        [
          "Mediaeval",
          "medieval"
        ],
        [
          "oversee",
          "oversee"
        ],
        [
          "shire",
          "shire"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A local official in Mediaeval England appointed by the King to oversee a shire."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shire-reeve"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (32c88e6 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"shire-reeve" meaning in English

Noun

Inflected forms