Welland

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A placename:; A river in Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, which flows into the Wash, a large bay on the North Sea. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    A placename:; 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
  3. 3
    A placename:; A river in southern Ontario, Canada, which joins the Niagara River and was named after the English river. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A placename:; A city on the Welland River in Niagara regional municipality, Ontario. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A placename:; An unincorporated community in Mendota Township, LaSalle County, and Brooklyn Township, Lee County, Illinois, United States. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A placename:; A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Charles Sturt, South Australia, named after the English village. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A habitational surname from Old English. countable

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"He knew that Mr. Welland, who was behaving "very handsomely," already had his eye on a newly built house in East Thirty-ninth Street. The neighbourhood was thought remote, and the house was built in a ghastly greenish-yellow stone that the younger architects were beginning to employ as a protest against the brownstone of which the uniform hue coated New York like a cold chocolate sauce; but the plumbing was perfect."

Etymology

No definite suggestion can be made about the origin of the placename in Worcestershire; perhaps from the Old English unattested personal name *Wēna + land (“land”).

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