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Wallsend

Wallsend proper noun: a town in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3066).

Proper noun

Wallsend

  1. A town in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3066).
  2. A western suburb of the city of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
  3. An unincorporated community in Bell County, Kentucky, United States.

Noun

Wallsend (countable and uncountable, plural Wallsends)

  1. A kind of coal originally dug at Wallsend on the Tyne.

Forms of Wallsend

pluralWallsends

Origin of Wallsend

From (in England) wall + end, after its historical position at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall.

Words formed from Wallsend

Questions about Wallsend

What does Wallsend mean?
Wallsend means a town in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3066).
What part of speech is Wallsend?
Wallsend can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Wallsend in the dictionary

  1. wallscapes
  2. wallscaping
  3. wallscapings
  4. wallscreen
  5. wallscreens
  6. Wallsend
  7. Wallsends
  8. wallsful
  9. wallside
  10. wallsides
  11. wallslam

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