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eyres

eyres is the plural of eyre.

Meaning of eyre

Noun

eyre (plural eyres)

  1. (UK, historical) 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

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: Eyres

Eyres (plural Eyreses)

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Eyres

Eyres

  1. (plural) plural of Eyre

Forms of eyres

pluralEyreses

Questions about eyres

What does eyres mean?
Eyres means a surname.
What is eyres the plural of?
Eyres is the plural of eyre.
What part of speech is eyres?
Eyres is a proper noun.

Words near eyres in the dictionary

  1. eyras
  2. eyre
  3. Eyre Peninsula
  4. Eyrean
  5. eyren
  6. eyres
  7. Eyrich
  8. Eyrichs
  9. eyrie
  10. eyries
  11. Eyring

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eyres (page history and authors); Eyres (page history and authors); eyre (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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