"What is a synonym of the word ""shire""?"
Shire charge. In the UK, "shire" is the original term for what is usually known now as a "county"; the word "county" having been introduced at the Norman Conquest of England. The two are nearly synonymous. Although in modern British usage counties are referred to as "shires" mainly in poetic contexts, terms such as Shire Hall remain common. Shire also remains a common part of many county names. In regions with so-called rhotic pronunciation such as Scotland, the word "shire" is pronounced . In non-rhotic areas the final R is silent unless the next word begins in a vowel. When "shire"
Synonym in others (for example, a "long arm" is not the same as an "extended arm"). Synonyms are also a source of euphemisms. Metonymy can sometimes be a form of synonymy: "the White House" is used as a synonym of "the administration" in referring to the U.S. executive branch under a specific president. Thus a metonym is a type of synonym, and the word "metonym" is a hyponym of the word "synonym". The analysis of synonymy, polysemy, hyponymy, and hypernymy is inherent to taxonomy and ontology in the information-science senses of those terms. It has applications in pedagogy and machine learning,