Meaning of Welland | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A placename:
   countable, uncountable
2. A river in Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, which flows into the Wash, a large bay on the North Sea.
   countable, uncountable
3. A village and civil parish (served by Little Malvern and Welland Parish Council) in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7940).
   countable, uncountable
4. A river in southern Ontario, Canada, which joins the Niagara River and was named after the English river.
   countable, uncountable
5. A city on the Welland River in Niagara regional municipality, Ontario.
   countable, uncountable
6. An unincorporated community in Mendota Township, LaSalle County, and Brooklyn Township, Lee County, Illinois, United States.
   countable, uncountable
7. A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Charles Sturt, South Australia, named after the English village.
   countable, uncountable
8. A habitational surname from Old English.
   countable

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Examples

“It must have⟳ been the magnetism of the viaduct that towers over the village of Harringworth, and which crosses the flood⟳ plain of the River Welland on the border⟳ of Rutland and Northamptonshire, which drew my family to living close⟳ by when we moved to Britain's smallest county in the early 1990s.”

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