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Powys
[ poh-is ]
noun
- John Cowper, 1872鈥1963, English author.
- his brother Llewelyn, 1884鈥1939, English author.
- his brother Theodore Francis, 1875鈥1953, English author.
- a county in E Wales. 1,960 sq. mi. (5,077 sq. km).
Powys
1/ 藞辫补蕣瑟蝉 /
noun
- a county in E Wales, formed in 1974 from most of Breconshire, Montgomeryshire, and Radnorshire. Administrative centre: Llandrindod Wells. Pop: 129聽300 (2003 est). Area: 5077 sq km (1960 sq miles)
Powys
2/ 藞辫蓹蕣瑟蝉 /
noun
- PowysJohn Cowper18721963MBritishWRITING: novelistWRITING: essayistWRITING: poet John Cowper (藞ku藧p蓹). 1872鈥1963, British novelist, essayist, and poet, who spent much of his life in the US His novels include Wolf Solent (1929), A Glastonbury Romance (1932), and Owen Glendower (1940)
- PowysLlewelyn18841939MBritishWRITING: essayistWRITING: journalist his brother, Llewelyn. 1884鈥1939, British essayist and journalist
- PowysT(heodore) F(rancis)18751953MBritishWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writer his brother, T ( heodore ) F ( rancis ). 1875鈥1953, British novelist and short-story writer, noted for such religious fables as Mr Weston's Good Wine (1927) and Unclay (1931)
Example Sentences
Powys health board has no waits of over two years.
The National Trust said it believed ongoing wildfires at Abergwesyn common in Powys had destroyed "the last remaining" local breeding habitat for golden plovers - considered one of the most beautiful birds of the British uplands.
The beautician was in work in Newtown, Powys, on the day she gave birth, and after finishing with her last client felt what she thought were just menstrual cramps.
They are proposing three major routes of pylons through the Welsh countryside in Powys, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, each spanning several miles.
But it would allow Powys its earlier summer finish arrangements due to ministers' "very high regard for the significant cultural and economic value of the Royal Welsh Show".
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