WALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wales mean? 

• WALES (noun)
  The noun WALES has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: WALES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WALES (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Cambria; Cymru; Wales

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)

 Context examples 

These I took in at a glance, but it was upon the man in the centre that my gaze was fixed, for this I knew must be the Prince of Wales.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Address: Carlton House Terrace; Holdernesse Hall, Hallamshire; Carston Castle, Bangor, Wales.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Andréa Taschetto, from University of New South Wales’ Climate Change Research Centre, tells SciDev.Net, Previous studies have suggested that MJO rainfall and circulation will change under global warming.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

No deaths or serious injuries were reported as of Monday morning, but the bushfires have caused extensive damage in rural areas of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW).

(Australian Wildfires Destroy Homes, Kill Cattle as Hundreds of People Flee, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Here Fanny, who could not but listen, involuntarily shook her head, and Crawford was instantly by her side again, entreating to know her meaning; and as Edmund perceived, by his drawing in a chair, and sitting down close by her, that it was to be a very thorough attack, that looks and undertones were to be well tried, he sank as quietly as possible into a corner, turned his back, and took up a newspaper, very sincerely wishing that dear little Fanny might be persuaded into explaining away that shake of the head to the satisfaction of her ardent lover; and as earnestly trying to bury every sound of the business from himself in murmurs of his own, over the various advertisements of A most desirable Estate in South Wales; To Parents and Guardians; and a Capital season'd Hunter.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fossils discovered by The University of New South Wales (UNSW) scientists in 3.48 billion-year-old hot spring deposits in the Pilbara region of Western Australia have pushed back by 580 million years the earliest known existence of microbial life on land.

(First Life Ever on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw up the curtain this time, reader, you must fancy you see a room in the George Inn at Millcote, with such large figured papering on the walls as inn rooms have; such a carpet, such furniture, such ornaments on the mantelpiece, such prints, including a portrait of George the Third, and another of the Prince of Wales, and a representation of the death of Wolfe.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The team, which includes researchers from Montana State University, Louisiana State University and Aberystwyth University in Wales, used a combination of measurements of methane concentrations and genomic analyses to describe how lake bacteria chemically convert methane in a way that reduces the warming potential of subglacial gases during ice sheet retreats.

(Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice sheet may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, National Science Foundation)

My powerful and illustrious master, he began, Charles, King of Navarre, Earl of Evreux, Count of Champagne, who also writeth himself Overlord of Bearn, hereby sends his love and greetings to his dear cousin Edward, the Prince of Wales, Governor of Aquitaine, Grand Commander of—

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My uncle whispered for a few moments with the Prince of Wales.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)