England
Etymology
From Средњи Енглески Engelond, from Стари Енглески Engla land (literally “land of the Angles”), from genitive of Engle (“the Angles”) + land (“land”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) МФА(кључ): /ˈɪŋɡlənd/, (non-standard) /ˈɪŋɡələnd/
- (US) МФА(кључ): /ˈɪŋɡlənd/, (also) /ˈɪŋlənd/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: Eng‧land
Proper noun
England (usually uncountable, plural Englands)
- The kingdom established in southeast Britain by Aethelstan of Wessex in 927 and its various successor states, now the largest and most populous of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom; (by extension, sometimes proscribed) the area of this kingdom generally, south of Scotland and east of Wales, including (historical) this area of Celtic and Roman Britain or the post-Roman kingdoms of the Angles and other Germans taken collectively.
- Шаблон:RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2
- 1804, William Blake, Milton, Vol. I, Preface:
- 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.
- And did those feet in ancient time
- 1864, Amédée Baillot translating Victor Hugo as William Shakespeare, Ch. 6:
- What is England? She is Elizabeth... To live alone, to go alone, to reign alone, to be alone,—such is Elizabeth, such is England...
England has two books: one which she has made, the other which has made her,—Shakespeare and the Bible. These two books do not agree together... Shakespeare thinks, Shakespeare dreams, Shakespeare doubts... Moreover, Shakespeare invents.
- What is England? She is Elizabeth... To live alone, to go alone, to reign alone, to be alone,—such is Elizabeth, such is England...
- 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:
- England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted passage, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. It has rich relations who have to be kow-towed to and poor relations who are horribly sat upon, and there is a deep conspiracy of silence about the source of the family income.
- 1983, William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads, pg. 203:
- England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire.
- 2012, Maureen Johnson, The Madness Underneath:
- "This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources."
- 2013 March 25, David Sedaris, "Long Way Home" in The New Yorker:
- Had they responded this way in France or America, this wouldn't have surprised me, but wasn't everyone in England supposed to be a detective? Wasn't every crime, no matter how complex, solved in a timely fashion by either a professional or a hobbyist? That's the impression you get from British books and TV shows.
- (chiefly law, historical or obsolete) Synonym of England and Wales.
- (proscribed, sometimes offensive) Synonym of United Kingdom.
- A habitational презиме..
- (United States) Lua грешка in Модул:place/data at line 2859: attempt to call field '?' (a nil value)..
Usage notes
As England has always constituted the most populous and important of the kingdoms comprising the United Kingdom, it has historically been used metonymously for the UK as a whole in English and (in translation) other languages as well. This usage is now considered uninformed or insulting, particularly to subjects of the other parts of the UK. The 1746 Wales & Berwick Act formalized the previous informal understanding that laws referencing the Kingdom of England alone also applied to the Principality of Wales; this continued to be the case until the 1967 Welsh Language Act required that any similarly general laws afterwards must specify England and Wales separately.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- Church of England
- close one's eyes and think of England
- Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland
- England and Wales
- Englander
- for England
- Kingdom of England
- lie back and think of England
- Little Englander
- Middle England
- Middle Englander
- New England
- North East England
- Northern England English
- think of England
Related terms
Translations
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See also
England, Arkansas на the Енглески Википедији.Википедији en
England (surname) на Википедији.Википедији
Anagrams
- endlang (alphagram adeglnn)
Danish
Proper noun
England
German
Pronunciation
Proper noun
England
- Lua грешка in Модул:place/data at line 2859: attempt to call field '?' (a nil value).
- (somewhat informal) Lua грешка in Модул:place/data at line 2859: attempt to call field '?' (a nil value).
- (somewhat informal) Lua грешка in Модул:place/data at line 2859: attempt to call field '?' (a nil value).
- (informal, proscribed) Lua грешка in Модул:place/data at line 2859: attempt to call field '?' (a nil value).
Usage notes
- In formal usage, England referring to Great Britain or the United Kingdom is now very rare.
- In common speech, England continues to be the most common word for the two respective entities as a whole. It is, however, now uncommon to use England when referring specifically to a place or incident in Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland. In such a case, the respective word would normally be used (Schottland, Wales, Nordirland).
- The usage including the Republic of Ireland, which is sometimes heard, is conspicuously nonstandard.
Synonyms
- Engelland (archaic)
- (Great Britain): Großbritannien, GB
- (United Kingdom): Vereinigtes Königreich, VK
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “England” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Icelandic
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
England n
Declension
Шаблон:is-decl-noun-base/sgindef
Derived terms
Luxembourgish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
England n
Norwegian Bokmål
Proper noun
England
Related terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
Proper noun
England
Related terms
Шведски
Pronunciation
Proper noun
England n (genitive Englands)
- Енглески говор
- Енглески изрази наслеђени од Средњи Енглески
- Енглески појмови изведени из Средњи Енглески
- Енглески изрази наслеђени од Стари Енглески
- Енглески појмови изведени из Стари Енглески
- Стари Енглески црвене везе
- Стари Енглески црвене везе/м
- Енглески 2-слог речи
- Енглески 3-слог речи
- Енглески термини са ИПА изговором
- Енглески појмови са аудио везама
- Енглески леме
- Енглески властите именице
- Енглески бројевне властите именице
- Енглески proscribed terms
- Енглески terms with historical senses
- Енглески terms with usage examples
- Енглески terms with obsolete senses
- Енглески offensive terms
- Енглески презимена
- Енглески презимена од Old English
- Terms with manual transliterations different from the automated ones
- Terms with manual transliterations different from the automated ones/ar
- Арапски црвене везе
- Арапски црвене везе/т+
- Арапски црвене везе/т
- Moroccan Arabic црвене везе
- Moroccan Arabic црвене везе/т
- Захтеви за преиспитивање Aragonese преводи
- Македонски црвене везе
- Македонски црвене везе/т+
- Стари Енглески црвене везе/т
- English autohyponyms
- English syncopic forms
- English words suffixed with -land
- en:Countries of the United Kingdom
- en:England
- Дански proper noun
- da:Countries of the United Kingdom
- Немачки 2-слог речи
- Немачки термини са ИПА изговором
- Немачки појмови са аудио везама
- Немачки леме
- Немачки властите именице
- Немачки informal terms
- Немачки proscribed terms
- Исландски појмови изведени из Old Norse
- Исландски 2-слог речи
- Исландски термини са ИПА изговором
- Исландски proper noun
- is:Countries of the United Kingdom
- is:England
- Luxembourgish 2-слог речи
- Luxembourgish термини са ИПА изговором
- Luxembourgish proper noun
- lb:Countries of the United Kingdom
- Norwegian Bokmål proper noun
- nb:Countries of the United Kingdom
- Norwegian Nynorsk термини са ИПА изговором
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper noun
- nn:Countries of the United Kingdom
- Шведски говор
- Шведски термини са ИПА изговором
- Шведски појмови са аудио везама
- Шведски леме
- Шведски властите именице
- sv:Countries of the United Kingdom
- sv:Енглеска
- English haplological forms