City vs Shire - What's the difference?
city | shire |
A large settlement, bigger than a town.
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, title= (lb) The central business district; downtown.
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Former administrative area of Britain; a county.
(UK, colloquial) The general area in which a person lives, used in the context of travel within the UK.
A rural or outer suburban local government area of Australia.
A shire horse.
To (re]])constitute as one or more shires or [[county, counties.
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* 2012 , James Lydon, The Making of Ireland: From Ancient Times to the Present (ISBN 1134981503), page 160:
As a proper noun city
is (uk) a popular shortened form of the city of london, the historic core of london where the roman settlement of londinium was established.As a noun shire is
former administrative area of britain; a county.As a verb shire is
to (re]])constitute as one or more shires or [[county|counties.city
English
(wikipedia city)Alternative forms
* cyteNoun
(cities)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city ’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
Derived terms
(Terms derived from the above definition of "city") * citify * citizen * city banker * city block * city boy * city center * city centre * city clerk * city desk * city district * city father * city girl * city hall * city limit * city line * city man * city manager * city planning * city room * city slicker * city-state * cityscape * citywide * (l) * holy city * inner city/inner-city * sister city * the city * twin city (city)See also
* metropolis * megalopolis * megacityStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----shire
English
Noun
(wikipedia shire) (en noun)- Yorkshire is the largest shire in England.
- When are you coming back to the shire ?
Verb
(shir)- Although he still managed formally to shire the province in the summer and autumn of 1585, his plan to establish a presidential government and complete the integration of Ulster into English Ireland met with royal indifference.
- The province was shired into nine counties,
- County Longford was shired in 1586