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Blantyre

Blantyre proper noun: a town and civil parish in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6857).

Proper noun

Blantyre

  1. A town and civil parish in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6857).
  2. A city in Blantyre district, Southern Region, Malawi.
  3. A district of the Southern Region, Malawi; in full, Blantyre District.
  4. A rural locality in Scenic Rim Region, south-east Queensland, Australia.

Origin of Blantyre

From Scottish Gaelic Blantaidhr, from Cumbric *blain (“summit, end”) + *tir (“land”), comparable to Welsh blaen + tir.

Words formed from Blantyre

Questions about Blantyre

What does Blantyre mean?
Blantyre means a town and civil parish in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6857).
What part of speech is Blantyre?
Blantyre is a proper noun.

Words near Blantyre in the dictionary

  1. Blansetts
  2. Blanshard
  3. Blanshards
  4. Blanton
  5. Blantons
  6. Blantyre
  7. blaow
  8. BLAP
  9. blaphart
  10. blapharts
  11. blaps

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