Swansea

[swon-see, -zee]

noun

1. Official Name City and County of Swansea. a seaport in southern Wales.

2. a city in southeastern Massachusetts.

Swansea

/ ˈswɒnzɪ /

noun

1. 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)

2. 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)

Word History and Origins

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)

Example Sentences

Pub landlady Maria Connolly's son Owain, 19, also recently moved away from his Swansea home to go to university in Hertfordshire.

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Dr Sarah Marks from Swansea University agreed business owners are under pressure to present themselves as successful online.

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However a Swansea Council fraud team followed Richards while he claimed to be ill and filmed him driving and going with a group of friends to play golf, the panel heard.

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He went on to train as a police officer and joined the local team in Swansea as a police constable in September 2023.

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They said was not the first time waste had accumulated outside the property in Frampton Road, in Gorseinon, but despite Swansea Council acknowledging the mess, "nothing has changed".

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