Wales
WAYLZ/weɪlz/
- 1A country in the west of Great Britain, one of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom and formerly a principality; also, in historical use, the region where Welsh language and culture predominated.
Wales sends representatives to the UK Parliament in London as well as to its own Senedd.
Rugby is enormously popular in Wales, where the national team draws passionate crowds.
UsageNo article: in Wales. The adjective and the language are Welsh, and the people are the Welsh.
Less common meanings
- 2A surname of English and Scottish origin.
- 3A town in Androscoggin County, Maine, in the United States.
- 4A South Yorkshire village, also a civil parish, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, England.
- 5A city in Alaska, near the westernmost point of the North American mainland, in the United States.
- 6A city in northeastern North Dakota, in the United States.
- 7A town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, in the United States.
- 8A town in Erie County, New York, in the United States.
- 9A town in Sanpete County, Utah, in the United States.
- 10A village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, in the United States.
- 11A ghost town in Ontario, Canada, submerged when the St. Lawrence Seaway was created in 1958.
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Origin
Proto-Germanic *walhaz ("Celt, Roman") gave Proto-West Germanic *walh and then Old English wealh ("Celt, Welsh person"). Its plural, Wēalas, became Middle English Wales. The same element forms the second part of Cornwall, and Gaul is related.