Cornwall
pronunciation
How to pronounce Cornwall in British English:
UK [ˈkɔ:nwɔ:l]
How to pronounce Cornwall in American English:
US [ˈkɔrnˌwɔl]
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- Noun:
- a hilly county in southwestern England
Word Origin
- Cornwall
- Old English Cornwalas (891), Cornubia (c.705), "the Corn Welsh," from original Celtic tribal name, *Cornowii, Latinized as Cornovii, literally "peninsula people, the people of the horn," from Celtic kernou "horn," hence "headland," from PIE *ker- (1) "horn; head, uppermost part of the body" (see horn (n.)), in reference to the long "horn" of land on which they live. To this the Anglo-Saxons added the plural of Old English walh "stranger, foreigner," especially if Celtic (see Welsh).
Example
- 1. Patch was a machine-gunner in the duke of cornwall 's light infantry .
- 2. Some claim its ruins lie beneath the waves off the coast of cornwall .
- 3. Drinking water poisoned people in cornwall , south-west england , in 1988 .
- 4. Talk of a seat straddling cornwall and devon already has campaigners in the south-west incensed .
- 5. Prince charles leads an expensive life and the duchy of cornwall is there to fund it .