Wales

name

Etymology: From Middle English Wales, from Old English Wēalas, plural of wealh (“Celt, Welsh person”), from Proto-West Germanic *walh, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“Celt, Roman”). Compare the second element in Cornwall, and also Gaul.

1. One of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom, formerly a principality.

   “Meronyms: North Wales, South Wales; see also Category:Places in Wales”

   “Reassured and pleased with the railway, the Queen returned from Paddington to Slough on June 23, bringing with her the infant Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward VII.”

2. The area in which the Welsh language and culture predominated, roughly coincident with the modern country.
3. A surname.
4. A hamlet in Queen Camel parish, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6824).
5. A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4883).
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14. A submerged ghost town in Ontario, Canada.

noun

1. plural of wale

verb

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of wale