Definitions for Wales

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Wales Wales

Spelling: [weylz]

IPA: /weɪlz/

Wales is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in Wales (aelsw).

Definitions for Wales

noun

1. a division of the United Kingdom, in SW Great Britain. 8016 sq. mi. (20,760 sq. km).
2. a streak, stripe, or ridge produced on the skin by the stroke of a rod or whip; welt.
3. the vertical rib in knit goods or a chain of loops running lengthwise in knit fabric (opposed to course).
4. the texture or weave of a fabric.
5. Nautical. any of certain strakes of thick outside planking on the sides of a wooden ship. gunwale.
6. Also called breast timber, ranger, waling. Engineering, Building Trades. a horizontal timber or other support for reinforcing various upright members, as sheet piling or concrete form boards, or for retaining earth at the edge of an excavation.
7. a ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
8. something that is selected as the best; choice.

verb (used with object)

1. to mark with wales.
2. to weave with wales.
3. Engineering, Building Trades. to reinforce or fasten with a wale or wales.
4. to choose; select.

Origin of Wales

before 1050; (noun) Middle English; Old English walu ridge, rib, wheal; cognate with Old Norse vǫlr, Gothic walus rod, wand; (v.) late Middle English, derivative of

Examples for Wales

These lived at the bottom of the many ponds and pools in Wales.

A long telegram from the Princess of Wales concluded: "I am praying for you."

The royal couple then traveled on to the Welsh capital of Cardiff to watch a rugby match between Wales and Australia.

His predicament eventually become something of a cause célèbre, attracting even the attention of the Princess of Wales.

The Prince of Wales and other members of the royal family were present.

Taffy was the name of this fellow from Denbigh, in Wales, and he was a drover.

Finally Taffy yielded and the two went on together to Wales.

In his version of the story, he then convinced Wales to try the wiki approach.

When Wales and his new wife had a daughter in 2011, they named her Ada, after Lady Lovelace.

The king set about punishing Marshal, opposing his attempts to establish his family in their lands in Ireland and Wales.