Flintshire

[ flint-sheer, -sher ]

noun

a county in northeastern Wales. 169 sq. mi. (438 sq. km).

Also called Flint.

Words Nearby Flintshire

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How to use Flintshire in a sentence

Henry of Essex's act of cowardice took place in 1157, during an expedition into Flintshire, when the Welsh made a sudden attack.
The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson | Jocelin de Brakelond
Let us now journey westward from the Dee into Wales, coming first into Flintshire.
England, Picturesque and Descriptive | Joel Cook
Holywell, a town in Flintshire, with a large cotton-weaving industry, had not been free from a bad kind of typhus for two years.
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2) | Charles Creighton
Nicholas Lloyd, an eminent divine, and philological writer, was born in Flintshire in 1634.
A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation | Robert Williams
The living of Llanarmon he subsequently exchanged for the rectory of Halkin, Flintshire, where he died in 1819.
A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation | Robert Williams

British Dictionary definitions for Flintshire

Flintshire

/ (ˈflɪntˌʃɪə, -ʃə) /

noun

a county of NE Wales, on the Irish Sea and the Dee estuary: became part of Clwyd in 1974, reinstated with reduced borders in 1996: includes the industrialized Deeside region in the E and the Clwydian Hills in the SW. Administrative centre: Mold. Pop: 149 400 (2003 est). Area: 437 sq km (169 sq miles)

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