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blantyre

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.30 in modern English

Syllables
blan-tyre
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A town and civil parish in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6857).

name

A city in Blantyre district, Southern Region, Malawi.

name

A district of the Southern Region, Malawi; in full, Blantyre District.

name

A rural locality in Scenic Rim Region, south-east Queensland, Australia.

Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic Blantaidhr, from Cumbric *blain (“summit, end”) + *tir (“land”), comparable to Welsh blaen + tir.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Phrases

Blantyre District High Blantyre Low Blantyre

Questions

What does blantyre mean?
A town and civil parish in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6857).
Where does blantyre come from?
It is traced to Scottish Gaelic.

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