noun
Hampshire
HAMP-sheer
noun
1
A county in southern England.
"They rented a cottage in Hampshire for the summer."
2
A breed of domestic pig with a black body and a distinctive white band around its middle.
"The farm keeps a small herd of Hampshire pigs."
Word Forms
Hampshires plural
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Etymology
From Old English Hāmtūnscīr, meaning "the shire of Southampton" — combining the town's old name with the word for a county.