English Explanatory Dictionary

Wallsend

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Wallsend Wallsends

Etymology

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

Derived words

West Wallsend
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