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WLS

WLS is the abbreviation of Wales.

WLS is the abbreviation of weighted least squares.

WLS is the abbreviation of weight loss surgery.

Meaning of Wales

Proper noun

Wales (countable and uncountable, plural Waleses)

  1. One of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom, formerly a principality.
    • Meronyms: North Wales, South Wales; see also Category:Places in Wales
    Synonyms:
    The Principality
  2. (historical) The area in which the Welsh language and culture predominated, roughly coincident with the modern country.
    Synonyms:
    Cymru, Welshland
  3. A surname.
  4. A hamlet in Queen Camel parish, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6824).
  5. A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4883).
  6. A minor city in Nome Census Area, Alaska.

See all 14 meanings of wales

Noun capitalized: WLs

WLs

  1. (plural) plural of WL

Questions about WLS

What is WLS the abbreviation of?
WLS is the abbreviation of Wales.
What part of speech is WLS?
WLS is a noun.

Words near WLS in the dictionary

  1. wlog
  2. wloka
  3. wlokas
  4. WLRG
  5. WLRGs
  6. WLS
  7. WLTM
  8. WLTP
  9. WLW
  10. WLWs
  11. WM

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: WLS (page history and authors); WLs (page history and authors); Wales (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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