# Blantyre

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #66,511

## Definitions
1. A town and civil parish in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6857).
2. A city in Blantyre district, Southern Region, Malawi.
3. A district of the Southern Region, Malawi; in full, Blantyre District.
4. A rural locality in Scenic Rim Region, south-east Queensland, Australia.

## Etymology
From Scottish Gaelic Blantaidhr, from Cumbric *blain (“summit, end”) + *tir (“land”), comparable to Welsh blaen + tir.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/blantyre