Definitions

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  • proper noun A Welsh town.

Etymologies

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From Welsh Cwmbrân.

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Examples

  • One of the highest claimants, Welsh Liberal Democrat leader, Mike German, has his main home in Cwmbran, 17 miles from Cardiff Bay.

    Well here's the what they claimed Valleys Mam 2008

  • One of the highest claimants, Welsh Liberal Democrat leader, Mike German, has his main home in Cwmbran, 17 miles from Cardiff Bay.

    Well here's the what they claimed Valleys Mam 2008

  • The four towns that could see a new jail are Cwmbran, Merthyr, Caernarfon and Wrexham.

    First the Open Cast Now a Prison in Merthyr Valleys Mam 2008

  • Like Mike German you mean? who claims for a second home in Cardiff despite living 15 minutes away in Cwmbran?

    Huw, Lynne and allowances 2008

  • The consultation document released by the Ministry of Justice today describes the former police training college site in Cwmbran as "a very good site" that could house as many as 1,500 prisoners.

    First the Open Cast Now a Prison in Merthyr Valleys Mam 2008

  • And Mr German has claimed his full allowance even though he has a home in Cwmbran – not too far away.

    Well here's the what they claimed Valleys Mam 2008

  • Two plots in South Wales – Cwmbran and Merthyr Tydfil – are also in the running meaning Shell Rhosgoch on Anglesey and Bryn-y-Neuadd at Llanfairfechan have been ruled out as options.

    First the Open Cast Now a Prison in Merthyr Valleys Mam 2008

  • Within a week of starting his job, Daniel died after falling through a skylight on the roof of a Matalan store in Cwmbran, Gwent.

    Family to challenge CPS manslaughter decision in High Court Thatsnews 2006

  • Within a week of starting his job, Daniel died after falling through a skylight on the roof of a Matalan store in Cwmbran, Gwent.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Thatsnews 2006

  • And I remember also a union official in Cwmbran spelling out, with some bitterness the tensions between the real, but unstable employment prospects offered by the new global economy and his traditional commitment to the rights of employees - which was going, he knew, to prove too costly and complicated in a setting where employers could so easily find a cheaper alternative location.

    The Richard Dimbleby Lecture 2002 2002

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