England

proper noun

1. 1

   The largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom; established in southern Britain by Aethelstan of Wessex in 927.

   Holonyms: Great Britain, Britain < United Kingdom, UK < Earth, World

   We thoroughly enjoyed our vacation in Britain. We visited England, Wales, and Scotland.

   Just close your eyes and think of England.

   And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastures seen?... I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In England’s green & pleasant Land.

2. 2

   historicalThe territory of the Angles and (later) Anglo-Saxons in Britain at any given time before the founding of the Kingdom of England, or the territory of the English people at any given time, in either the Kingdom of England or the United Kingdom.

3. 3

   archaicSynonym of England and Wales.

4. 4

   datedSynonym of Great Britain or United Kingdom.

   England expects that every man will do his duty.

   There is a very near analogy between the position of the President of the United States and that of the Prime Minister of England, and both are paid at much the same rate — the income of a second-class professional man.

   Another twenty years along the present line of development, and India will be a peasant republic linked with England only by voluntary alliance.

   The partition of Czechoslovakia under pressure from England and France amounts to the complete surrender of the Western Democracies to the Nazi threat of force.

5. 5

   A habitational surname from Old English.

6. 6

   A city in Lonoke County, Arkansas, United States.

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