lancashire

1. 1.

   a historical area of northwestern England on the Irish Sea; noted for textiles

   Broadergeographical area

   Part ofEngland

Other forms of lancashire

plural

lancashires·

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 lancashire

What does lancashire mean?

lancashire means "a historical area of northwestern England on the Irish Sea; noted for textiles".

How many syllables are in lancashire?

lancashire has 3 syllables: lan-ca-shire. The stress falls on "lan". In IPA it is /ˈlæŋkəˌʃaɪɹ/.

Is lancashire a common word?

lancashire is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with lancashire?

2 words rhyme with lancashire. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.