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shire meaning in Marathi

शिरे

/ʃaɪə//ʃaɪ(ə)ɹ/

shire in Marathi: शिरे. In English, shire means 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.

Marathi words for shire

शिरे

English meaning of shire

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun The people living in a shire (noun sense 1.1) considered collectively.
  3. noun The general area in which a person comes from or lives.
  4. noun An administrative area or district in other countries.

Full definition of shire

shire in a sentence

  • Yorkshire is the largest shire in England.
  • When are you coming back to the shire?
  • County Longford was shired in 1586.

shire in other languages

Questions about shire in Marathi

What is the meaning of shire in Marathi?
Shire in Marathi is शिरे.
shire चा मराठी अर्थ काय आहे?
Shire: शिरे.
What does shire mean in English?
Shire means 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.

Source and license

Marathi words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “shire”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: shire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Marathi words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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