Swansea

[ swon-see, -zee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Swansea

/ ˈswɒnzɪ /

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)
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)

Origin of Swansea¹

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)

Princess Lilian was born Lilian Davies in Swansea, Wales, in August 1915 and moved to London aged 16 to follow a modelling career.

Sonny Rees drank the 40% proof whisky at his 2nd birthday in a Frankie and Benny's restaurant in Swansea.

Swansea approached the owner of the arena in Arles, got the gig, and set to work.

Swansea enlisted the Brooklyn-based architect Ben Krone, and together they created an image.

After leaving Swansea, they went to Taunton and Middleboro, where they burned several houses and killed a few persons.

These sands, and another large shoal called the Skerweathers, nearer Swansea, have been fatal to many vessels.

The following autumn Wheatstone performed a similar experiment in the Bay of Swansea.

The sight of the cockle-women at Swansea, where we had to wait, would make a fine subject for a painter.

For introducing to the reader the people of the fairy kingdom beneath the bay of Swansea, I have no apology to make.

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