Swansea

American  

[swon-see, -zee] / ˈswɒn si, -zi /

noun

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

2. a city in southeastern Massachusetts.

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Swansea British  

/ 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)

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Etymology

Origin of Swansea

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

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Swansea

Carys Louise Brandon, from Swansea, had an emergency C-section to deliver her first child in 2022 and said she was completely unprepared for what came afterwards.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

The first series was primarily filmed in south Wales, such as in Merthyr Mawr in Bridgend, the Gower peninsula, near Swansea and Brecon, in Powys, mid Wales.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

She gave birth at an NHS hospital in Swansea, where she was denied pain relief.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

The BBC has found this was not the first time Hopkins, from Neath near Swansea, is alleged to have mis-sold a horse in the last seven years.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

In the following year the king visited de Braose at Oystermouth Castle, which seems to have been made the lord’s chief residence, after the destruction of Swansea Castle by Llewelyn.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various