Swansea

Meanings

1. A city and county in South Wales.
2. Various other places in the United States, Canada and Australia:
3. A neighbourhood of the city of Toronto, Ontario.
4. A ghost town in La Paz County, Arizona.
5. A ghost town in Inyo County, California.
6. A village in St. Clair County, Illinois.
7. A town in Bristol County, Massachusetts.
8. A ghost town in White Pine County, Nevada.
9. A town in Lexington County, South Carolina.
10. A suburb of Newcastle in the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales.
11. A town in Glamorgan-Spring Bay council area, Tasmania.

Etymology

From Middle English Sweynesse (c. 1165), Sueinesea (1190), Swanesey (1322), from Old Norse Sveins ey (literally “Sveinn’s island”).