Word
shire, n.
(shires)
British breed of large heavy draft horse
<noun.animal>
shire
shire horse
semantic pointers
hypernym
draft horse, draught horse, dray horse
a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county
<noun.location>
shire
semantic pointers
hypernym
administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
part meronym
county town, shire town
domain of synset (region)
United Kingdom, UK, U.K., Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain