eyre
US/ɛəɹ/
eyre noun: a journey taken by certain Medieval English itinerant judges (justices in eyre).
Noun
eyre (plural eyres)
- A journey taken by certain Medieval English itinerant judges (justices in eyre)
- The fact that the Surrey veredicta are uncancelled, and indeed their very survival, can doubtless be explained by the suspension of the eyre in June 1294, when consideration of the crown pleas had barely begun;1982, Public Record Office Handbooks, page 35
- None of the original veredicta survive for this eyre, but one of the best surviving examples, and the only one so far to be printed, comes from the Wiltshire eyre which began in the southern eyre circuit at Wilton on the same day as the 1281 Derbyshire eyre began at Derb, and which provides a...2000, Aileen Hopkinson, editor, The Rolls of the 1281 Derbyshire Eyre, Derbyshire Record Society, →ISBN, page xvi
Proper noun capitalized: Eyre
Eyre (countable and uncountable, plural Eyres)
- A surname.
- A former township in the municipality of Dysart et al, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
eyre meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
eyre in Tamil
- சுற்றுச் செலவு, சுற்றுப்பயணம், சுற்றுலா நயன்மன்றம்
eyre in Urdu
- گشتی کچہری
eyre in Kannada
- ಸಂಚಾರೀ ನ್ಯಾಯಸ್ಥಾನ, ಸಂಚಾರ, ಸರ್ಕೀಟು, ಸಂಚಾರೀ ನ್ಯಾಯಾಲಯದ ದಾಖಲೆ
Forms of eyre
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | eyres |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Eyres |
Origin of eyre
From Middle English eire, from Old French erre (“journey, march, way”), from Latin iter, itineris (“a going, way”), from the root of ire (“to go”). Compare errant, itinerant, issue.
Words formed from eyre
Phrases with eyre
Words that rhyme with eyre
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- declare
- hair
- Sinclair
- where
- ayr
- care
- layer
- mayor
- parterre
- fare
- glare
- lair
- pear
- prayer
- snare
- compare
- dare
- rare
- share
- swear
- ware
- wear and tear
- Ayer
- blare
- flair
- forbear
- Kerr
- laissez faire
- mousquetaire
- pare
- prepare
- repair
- stare
- unfair
- yare
- -ware
- abear
- aflare
- despair
- glair
- heir
- impair
- Pierre
- reair
- scare
- tare
- trillionaire
- Voltaire
Questions about eyre
- What does eyre mean?
- Eyre means a journey taken by certain Medieval English itinerant judges (justices in eyre).
- What is eyre in Tamil?
- Eyre in Tamil is சுற்றுச் செலவு, சுற்றுப்பயணம், சுற்றுலா நயன்மன்றம். See Eyre meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is eyre?
- Eyre can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce eyre?
- Eyre is pronounced /ɛəɹ/ (US).
- What is the plural of eyre?
- The plural of eyre is eyres.
Words near eyre in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: eyre (page history and authors); Eyre (page history and authors); Eyre (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); eyre (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); eyre (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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