Denbighshire

[ den-bee-sheer, -sher ]

/ ˈdɛn biˌʃɪər, -ʃər /

noun

a historic county in Clywd in N Wales.

Also called Den·bigh.

Example sentences from the Web for denbighshire

For instance, there was a great fair which was wont to be held at Rhuddlan, in Denbighshire.

Christmas Evans |Paxton Hood
David Samwell, an elegant poet, who was a native of Nantglyn, in Denbighshire.

A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation |Robert Williams
Soon afterwards it again becomes wholly Welsh for a brief while, and forms the boundary between Denbighshire and Flint.

The Rivers of Great Britain; Rivers of the South and West Coasts |Various
The human remains examined by Busk are of precisely the same type as those of Denbighshire.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 |Various

He wandered about Denbighshire, Merionethshire, and Carnarvonshire.

Curiosities of Impecuniosity |H. G. Somerville

British Dictionary definitions for denbighshire

Denbighshire

/ (ˈdɛnbɪˌʃɪə, -ʃə) /

noun

a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)

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Denbighshire

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