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Swansea

[ swon-see, -zee ]

noun

  1. Official_name City and County of Swansea. a seaport in southern Wales.
  2. a city in southeastern Massachusetts.


Swansea

/ ˈɒԳɪ /

noun

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ 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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She told them about her son Joel's love of the band who were due on stage at the Tunes On The Bay festival at Swansea Beach on Friday.

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"They kept away. At home it used to go off quite often. Especially when they were going over Swansea," she said.

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Swansea's final game of the Championship season at home to Oxford United on Saturday will be Allen's last, but there will be no such curtain call with Wales.

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The levels of Crai Reservoir in Powys have dropped, so the company is now taking more water from its Felindre reservoirs in the Swansea valleys instead.

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Mr Elias appeared at Swansea Magistrates' Court on 23 April, and will appear at the court again on 14 May.

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