Caernarvonshire

or Caer·nar·fon·shire

[ kahr-nahr-vuhn-sheer, -sher ]

noun

1. a historic county in Gwynedd, in northwestern Wales.

Caernarvonshire

/ kɑːˈnɑːvənˌʃɪə; -ʃə /

noun

1. (until 1974) a county of NW Wales, now part of Gwynedd

Example Sentences

Among the mountains of Caernarvonshire none are more gloomy and precipitous than the dark sister Glydirs Fawr and Bach.

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Edmund Griffith, D.D., was a native of Lleyn in Caernarvonshire, where he was born in 1570. 

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Bishop of St. Asaph, was a native of Llanbeder, near Aberconwy, Caernarvonshire, where he was born about the year 1515. 

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He died in 1673, and was buried in his cathedral, which had been greatly improved at his cost. p. 44William Morgan, D.D., the first translator of the Bible into the Welsh language, was born at Penmachno, Caernarvonshire, and was educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge. 

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He was a native of Llangain in Lleyn, in Caernarvonshire. 

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