hampshire

Other forms of hampshire

plural

hampshires·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hampshire

What does hampshire mean?

hampshire means "a county of southern England on the English Channel". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hampshire?

hampshire has 2 syllables: hamp-shire. The stress falls on "hamp". In IPA it is /ˈhæmpʃɚ/.

What is another word for hampshire?

Close synonyms include Hampshire down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hampshire a common word?

hampshire is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.