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WALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
princedom; principality (territory ruled by a prince)
Meronyms (parts of "Wales"):
River Severn; Severn; Severn River (a river in England and Wales flowing into the Bristol Channel; the longest river in Great Britain)
Menai Strait (a strait in northern Wales between Anglesey Island and the mainland)
Aberdare (a mining town in southern Wales)
Bangor (a university town in northwestern Wales on the Menai Strait)
Cardiff (the capital and largest city of Wales)
Newport (a port city in southeastern Wales)
Sealyham (a village in southwestern Wales where the Sealyham terrier was first bred)
Swansea (a port city in southern Wales on an inlet of the Bristol Channel)
Anglesea; Anglesea Island; Anglesey; Anglesey Island; Mona (an island to the northwest of Wales)
Meronyms (members of "Wales"):
Cambrian; Cymry; Welsh; Welshman (a native or resident of Wales)
Domain member region:
Cymric; Welsh (a Celtic language of Wales)
Annwfn; Annwn ((Welsh mythology) the other world; land of fairies)
Amaethon (the farmer god; ancient god of agriculture)
Arawn (Celtic deity who was the lord of Annwfn (the other world or the land of fairies))
Arianrhod; Arianrod (Celtic goddess famous for her beauty; mother of Dylan)
Don (Celtic goddess; mother of Gwydion and Arianrhod; corresponds to Irish Danu)
Dylan (Celtic god of the waves; son of Arianrhod)
Gwyn (Celtic underworld god)
Llew Llaw Gyffes (son of Gwydion and Arianrhod; supported by magic of Gwydion; cursed by Arianrhod)
LLud (a Celtic warrior god)
Llyr (Celtic deity who was the father of Manawydan; corresponds to Irish Lir)
Manawydan; Manawyddan (Celtic sea god; son of Llyr)
Sealyham; Sealyham terrier (a wire-haired terrier with short legs that was first bred in Sealyham)
Holonyms ("Wales" is a part of...):
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb wale
Context examples:
Why, I was first reserve for England against Wales, and I’ve skippered the ’Varsity all this year.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At least 70 homes and a school were destroyed in the small coastal town of Tathra in New South Wales, authorities said, where people fled to the beach to avoid the flames and flying embers carried the fire front forward quickly.
(Australian Wildfires Destroy Homes, Kill Cattle as Hundreds of People Flee, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
My heart was down in the soles of my little silver-buckled shoes now that I had the immediate prospect of meeting so great and terrible a person as the Prince of Wales.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Minerals in Lancashire and Wales.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Of course, I’ve been at the ringside incog. many a time, but never as the Prince of Wales.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Those were the days when the Prince of Wales had just built his singular palace by the sea, and so from May to September, which was the Brighton season, there was never a day that from one to two hundred curricles, chaises, and phaetons did not rattle past our doors.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was much laughter and clapping of glasses upon the table at the conclusion of old Buckhorse’s story, and I saw the Prince of Wales hand something to the waiter, who brought it round and slipped it into the skinny hand of the veteran, who spat upon it before thrusting it into his pocket.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In an age when the Premier was a heavy drinker, the Leader of the Opposition a libertine, and the Prince of Wales a combination of the two, it was hard to know where to look for a man whose private and public characters were equally lofty.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She came of a poor family, but one of some position, for her elder brother was the famous Sir Charles Tregellis, who, having inherited the money of a wealthy East Indian merchant, became in time the talk of the town and the very particular friend of the Prince of Wales.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
