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SWA

SWA is the initialism of South West Africa.

SWA is the initialism of Scotch Whisky Association.

Meaning of South West Africa

Proper noun

South West Africa

  1. (historical) A former German colony (before World War I) and later a South African colony (from 1915 to 1990, illegally occupied after 1966 per United Nations stipulations) in Southern Africa; modern Namibia.

Questions about SWA

What is SWA the initialism of?
SWA is the initialism of South West Africa.

Words near SWA in the dictionary

  1. sw.
  2. SW1
  3. SW19
  4. SW1A
  5. SW6er
  6. SWA
  7. swaa
  8. swaaa
  9. swab
  10. swab down
  11. swab hitch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: SWA (page history and authors); South West Africa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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