Aberdare
Speech parts
1. Aberdare - Noun
2. Aberdare - Proper noun
Meaning
a mining town in southern Wales
Source: WordNetPhrases with the word
Examples
Aberdare Co-operative store fire, 11 May 1919 Government As a small village in the upland valleys of Glamorgan, Aberdare did not play any significant part in political life until its development as an industrial settlement.
At the last National Eisteddfod held in Aberdare in 1956 Mathonwy Hughes won the chair.
Davies, op cit, p 400 Coal mined in Aberdare parish rose from convert in 1844 to convert in 1850, Davies, op cit, p 384 and the coal trade, which after 1875 was the chief support of the town, soon reached huge dimensions.
According to initial reports, the pilots of the plane may have drifted off-course and this may have resulted in crashing the plane in Aberdare.
Culture Caradog statue in Victoria Square Aberdare, during its boom years, was considered a centre of Welsh culture : it hosted the first National Eisteddfod in 1861, with which David Williams (Alaw Goch) was closely associated.
From 1852 until 1868 the seat was held by Henry Austen Bruce whose main industrial interests lay in the Aberdare valley.