Swansea

[ swon-see, -zee ]

noun
  1. Official name City and County of Swansea . a seaport in southern Wales.

  2. a city in southeastern Massachusetts.

Origin of Swansea

1
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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British Dictionary definitions for Swansea

Swansea

/ (ˈswɒnzɪ) /


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)

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