Definitions from Wiktionary (shire)

▸ noun:  (British)
▸ noun:  (chiefly historical) 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.
▸ noun:  (by extension) The people living in a shire (sense 1.1) considered collectively.
▸ noun:  (by extension, informal) The general area in which a person comes from or lives.
▸ noun:  (by extension) An administrative area or district in other countries.
▸ noun:  (Australia, often attributive) An outer suburban or rural local government area which elects its own council.
▸ noun:  (obsolete)
▸ noun:  A district or province governed by a person; specifically (Christianity), the province of an archbishop, the see of a bishop, etc.
▸ noun:  (by extension, generally) A region; also, a country.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To constitute or reconstitute (a country or region) into one or more shires (noun sense 1.1) or counties.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  Short for shire horse (“a draught horse of a tall British breed, usually bay, black, or grey”). [A draught horse of a tall British breed, usually bay, black, or grey.]

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