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shiels

shiels is the plural of shiel.

Meaning of shiel

Noun

shiel (plural shiels)

  1. A shepherd's hut or shieling.
  2. A cottage.
    • The craik amang the claver hay, The pairtrick whirrin o'er the ley, The swallow jinkin round my shiel, Amuse me at my spinnin wheel.1792, Robert Burns, Poems & Songs

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: Shiels

Shiels

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Shiels

Shiels

  1. (plural) plural of Shiel

Questions about shiels

What does shiels mean?
Shiels means a surname.
What is shiels the plural of?
Shiels is the plural of shiel.
What part of speech is shiels?
Shiels is a proper noun.

Words near shiels in the dictionary

  1. shielin
  2. shieling
  3. shielings
  4. shielins
  5. Shiell
  6. shiels
  7. shier
  8. shiers
  9. shies
  10. shies away
  11. shies away from

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shiels (page history and authors); Shiels (page history and authors); shiel (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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