SWANSEA Definition & Meaning

Swansea

[swon-see, -zee]

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noun

Official Name City and County of Swansea.��a seaport in southern Wales.
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Swansea

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a port in S Wales, in Swansea county on an inlet of the Bristol Channel ( Swansea Bay ); a metallurgical and oil-refining centre; university (1920). Pop: 169 880 (2001)
a county of S Wales on the Bristol Channel, created in 1996 from part of West Glamorgan: includes the Swansea conurbation and the Gower peninsula. Administrative centre: Swansea. Pop: 224 600 (2003 est). Area: 378 sq km (146 sq miles)

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Swansea¹

From Old Norse Sveinsey “Sweyn's Island, Sweyn's Inlet,” the name of a Viking trading post founded by the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard (960?–1014)

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"It is difficult enough to navigate life with allergies without adding the learning of Latin on top of everything else," said Rachel, from Swansea.

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Bob Dylan will play for three shows in Swansea in November as he returns to the UK and Ireland for 13 shows.

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Alisdair Adams was 18 and at University College Swansea, now Swansea University, when he first met Pierce who was a parish priest in the city in the 1980s.

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Powell, a former Swansea University student, then entered a third property, waking the resident by opening their bedroom door before fleeing.

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Morgan was taking part Ireland-Wales forum with the Irish foreign minister Simon Harris in Swansea on Thursday.

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swan's-down swanskin

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