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Welsh city and county
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swansea
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Swansea ( ; ), officially known as the City and County of Swansea ( ), is a coastal city and county in Wales . It is Wales' second largest city after Cardiff and the twenty-fifth largest city in the UK. Swansea lies within the historic county boundaries ...
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 533 Housing Units (2000): 262 Land area (2000): 1.134335 sq. miles (2.937915 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.053991 sq. miles (0.139837 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.188326 sq. miles (3.077752 sq. km) FIPS code: 70675 Located within: South ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
a Scandinavian name, probably literally "Sveinn's Island."
Usage examples of swansea.
February 1962 when Mr Ronald Wildman of Luton, Bedfordshire, was starting out to deliver a new Vauxhall car to an address in Swansea.
The Jerries had probably sewn a new net of mines in the Bristol Channel or outside Swansea harbour either by minelayer or aircraft - nothing more or less than routine.
Mendez Nunez, owned by the Bilboa Oil Company, which left Cadiz on the 9th instant bound for Swansea.
Evidently she hailed from the Tyne, and since the Welsh coalfields supply the iron furnaces around Swansea with as much coal as they want, it was as futile for a Tyneside collier to carry coals to the Bristol Channel ports as it would be for her to carry that commodity to Newcastle.