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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of west-central Ireland on Galway Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. Galway was incorporated in the late 1300s and is today an important industrial and tourist center.

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  • proper noun A county in the Republic of Ireland
  • proper noun A city in the county of Galway, Ireland.

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  • noun a port city in western Ireland on Galway Bay

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