Silures

American  

[sil-yuh-reez] / ˈsɪl yəˌriz /

plural noun

1. a British Celtic tribe resident in southeastern Wales at the time of the Roman conquest of Britain.

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Silures British  

/ saɪˈlʊəriːz /

plural noun

1. a powerful and warlike tribe of ancient Britain, living chiefly in SE Wales, who fiercely resisted Roman invaders in the 1st century _a.d

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Example Sentences

Cambrian comes from the Roman name for Wales, while Ordovician and Silurian recall ancient Welsh tribes, the Ordovices and Silures.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

The Silures were they that had atchiued this victorie, and kept a fowle stur ouer all the countries about them, till by the comming of Didius against them, they were driuen backe and repelled.

From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England by Holinshed, Raphael

His legates, Cerealis and Frontinus, reduced the Silures and Brigantes,—one the most warlike, the other the most numerous people in the island.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

They are recognized by Tacitus in Britain in the Silures of Wales; and they are still to be seen in the small, dark, lithe inhabitants of North Wales.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

One running along the valley of the Thames takes us to the Dobuni of Gloucestershire, and the Silures of South Wales; both of which are specially enumerated as subdued populations.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)