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Welshpool

/wɛlʃˈpuːl/

Welshpool proper noun: a town and community with a town council in Powys, Wales, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SJ2207).

Proper noun

Welshpool

  1. A town and community with a town council in Powys, Wales, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SJ2207).
  2. A town in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Origin of Welshpool

From Welsh + Pool; it was originally known as Pool, but the name was changed in 1835 to distinguish it from the English town of Poole.

Words formed from Welshpool

Questions about Welshpool

What does Welshpool mean?
Welshpool means a town and community with a town council in Powys, Wales, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SJ2207).
What part of speech is Welshpool?
Welshpool is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Welshpool?
Welshpool is pronounced /wɛlʃˈpuːl/.

Words near Welshpool in the dictionary

  1. Welshmans Reef
  2. Welshmen
  3. Welshness
  4. welshnut
  5. welshnuts
  6. Welshpool
  7. Welshries
  8. Welshry
  9. Welshwoman
  10. Welshwomen
  11. Welshy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Welshpool (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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