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Definition: Ayrshire |
AyrshireNoun1. Hardy breed from Ayr Scotland. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Ayrshire" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Crosswords: Ayrshire |
| Specialty definitions using "Ayrshire": Ayrshire Poet ♦ Bards ♦ Nannie. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It became part of the kingdom of Scotland during the 11th century. In 1263, the Scots successfully drove off a group of Norwegian Vikings in a skirmish known as the Battle of Largs.
A notable historic building in Ayrshire is Turnberry Castle, which dates from the 13th century or earlier, and which may have been the birthplace of Robert the Bruce.
The Ayrshire breed of cattle originated here, prior to 1800.
The newly created Strathclyde administrative Region included Ayrshire in 1975. When the two-tier system was abandoned, Ayrshire was administratively split into the council regions of East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and North Ayrshire, although the later also includes the County of Buteshire.
Glasgow Prestwick International Airport, serving Glasgow, Scotland, is located in Ayrshire.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ayrshire."
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| "Ayrshire" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.74% of the time. "Ayrshire" is used about 378 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 99.74% | 377 | 14,506 |
| Noun (common) | 0.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 378 | N/A |
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| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Ayrshire Metal Products Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Ayrshire, IA (city, FIPS 4105) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Ayrshire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 爱å°". (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ayrshireay | ||||
| Words rhyming with "Ayrshire" (pronounced 'Ayr"shire'): Shropshire, Yorkshire. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-r-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: harries. | |
-2 letters: airers, ashier, hayers, hirers, raiser, rasher, sharer, sherry, sierra, sirrah. | |
-3 letters: airer, arise, arris, eyras, eyrir, hairs, hairy, hares, harry, hayer, hears, heirs, herry, hirer, hires, raise, rares, raser, rears, resay, rheas, riser, sayer, serai, serry, share, shear, shier, shire, shirr, shyer, sirra, yarer, years, yirrs. | |
-4 letters: aery, airs, airy, ares, arse. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-r-r-s-y" | |
+2 letters: serigraphy. | |
+3 letters: erythremias, erythrismal, squirearchy. | |
+4 letters: hyperrealism, hyperrealist, platyrrhines, praiseworthy, rehydrations. | |
+5 letters: cryotherapies, hydrographies, hyperparasite, hyperpyrexias, hyperrealisms, hyperthermias, hyperurbanism, physiographer, secretaryship. | |
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