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shire towns

shire towns is the plural of shire town.

Meaning of shire town

Noun

shire town (plural shire towns)

  1. The administrative centre, or capital, of a shire.
    Synonyms:
    county seat

Questions about shire towns

What is shire towns the plural of?
Shire towns is the plural of shire town.

Words near shire towns in the dictionary

  1. shire
  2. shire horse
  3. shire horses
  4. Shire Oak
  5. shire town
  6. shire towns
  7. shire-reeve
  8. shire-reeves
  9. Shirebrook
  10. shired
  11. Shireen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shire towns (page history and authors); shire town (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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