Swindon
Proper noun
Meaning
Swindon
A town, a unitary authority and borough in Wiltshire, England
Examples
I was born in Swindon... a place that always looked west. I found that wherever I go I love to have a room with a view of the western sky. My late brother and I, when we were small, had a room at the back of the house that overlooked the sunset; and both for he and I it was kind of magical.
A former Institute secretary formed the New Swindon Co-operative Society in 1853 which, after a schism in the society's membership, spawned the New Swindon Industrial Society that ran a retail business from a stall in the market at the Institute.
Approximately 300,000 people live within 20 minutes of Swindon town centre.
For every time the lift took the inhabitants of Swindon back down to the ground floor, they stepped out of the department store and onto the streets of Swindon, and so found themselves somewhere they didn't want to be."
Art In 1948 Morris had his first one-man showing of his paintings, at Swindon Art Centre.
As the Helium Kidz, they were featured in a small NME article as an up-and-coming band from Swindon.