Milford Haven

American

noun

a bay in SW Wales.
a seaport on the N side of this bay, in Dyfed county.

Milford Haven British

/ ˈmɪlfəd /

noun

a port in SW Wales, in Pembrokeshire on Milford Haven (a large inlet of St George's Channel): major oil port. Pop: 12 830 (2001)

"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

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Milford Haven

The boy, 16, followed Vicki Williams into a classroom at Milford Haven Comprehensive School in Pembrokeshire, after asking for her help with homework.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Carmarthen was ranked third worst and Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire thefourth worst for urban tree cover, according to Coed Cadw.

From BBC ● May 24, 2026

Harteveld had been a town councillor in Milford Haven for three years, and had realised she would need "broad shoulders" to run as a Welsh Labour candidate in a county council election.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026

Layered with history, the 100-man fort was originally built in the 1850s to protect the busy port of Milford Haven from French naval attacks.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025

We could not forbear looking backwards, across Milford Haven.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023