wales

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8
Words With Friends
9
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/weɪlz/ (US)
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/weɪlz/ (US) · [weɪɫz] (US) · /weɪlz/

Definition of wales

16 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. (countable, uncountable)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.”
    “A 2013 study found the HIV rate among injecting IPED users in England and Wales was 1.5 percent, comparable to 1.2 percent among users of psychoactive drugs like heroin and crack.”
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name

  1. (countable, uncountable)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.”
    “A 2013 study found the HIV rate among injecting IPED users in England and Wales was 1.5 percent, comparable to 1.2 percent among users of psychoactive drugs like heroin and crack.”
  2. (countable, historical, uncountable)The area in which the Welsh language and culture predominated, roughly coincident with the modern country.
  3. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
  4. (countable, uncountable)A hamlet in Queen Camel parish, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6824).
  5. (countable, uncountable)A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4883).
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  14. (countable, uncountable)A submerged ghost town in Ontario, Canada.

noun

  1. (form-of, plural)plural of wale

verb

  1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of wale

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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.

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