SWANSEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Swansea mean? 

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

1. a port city in southern Wales on an inlet of the Bristol Channel

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWANSEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port city in southern Wales on an inlet of the Bristol Channel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("Swansea" is a part of...):

Cambria; Cymru; Wales (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)

 Context examples 

Adds David Lamb, lead author and a scientist at Swansea University Medical School, We know that giant viruses may be linked with some forms of pneumonia, so gaining a better understanding of them will help us develop ways of tackling those viruses.

(Surprising enzymes discovered in giant ocean viruses, National Science Foundation)

Results of a new study led by researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Swansea University Medical School increase our knowledge of viruses — in the sea and on land — and their potential to cause life-threatening illnesses.

(Surprising enzymes discovered in giant ocean viruses, National Science Foundation)