England
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋɡlənd/
ipa: /ˈɪŋɡələnd/
ipa: /ˈɪŋɡlənd/
ipa: /ˈɪŋlənd/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪŋɡˈlaɳɖ/
Forms: form: Englands
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *angliz
Old English Engle
Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Germanic *landą
Proto-West Germanic *land
Old English land
Old English Engla land
Middle English Engelond
English England
From Middle English Engelond, England, from Old English Engla land (literally “land of the Angles”), from genitive of Engle (“the Angles”) + land (“land”).
Senses: examples: text: We thoroughly enjoyed our vacation in Britain. We visited England, Wales, and Scotland.
text: Just close your eyes and think of England.
text: Gaunt ...This royall throne of Kings, this sceptred Ile,
This earth of maiesty, this seate of Mars,
This other Eden, demy Paradice,
This fortresse built by Nature for her selfe,
Against infection and the hand of warre,
This happy breede of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the siluer sea,
Which serues it in the office of a wall,
Or as moate defensiue to a house,
Against the enuie of lesse happier lands.
This blessed plot, this earth, this realme, this England...
Is now leasde out...
That England that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shamefull conquest
of it selfe...
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: 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.
ref: 1804, William Blake, Milton, Vol. I, Preface:
text: 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.
ref: 1864, Victor Hugo, chapter 6, in Amédée Baillot, transl., William Shakespeare:
text: 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.
ref: 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:
text: 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.
ref: 1983, William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads, page 203:
text: "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."
ref: 2012, Maureen Johnson, The Madness Underneath:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 March 25, David Sedaris, "Long Way Home" in The New Yorker
text: The authors also said they attempted to investigate whether there are differing breast cancer risks between hormonal and nonhormonal IUDs. However, they said too few women in England had been prescribed nonhormonal IUDs to make a reliable comparison.
ref: 2023 March 21, Jessie Gretener, “Progestagen-only contraceptives carry similar, small breast cancer risk as other hormone contraceptives, study finds”, in CNN:
glosses: The largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom; established in southern Britain by Aethelstan of Wessex in 927.
glosses: The 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.
topics: law
glosses: Synonym of England and Wales.
synonyms: word: England and Wales
examples: text: England expects that every man will do his duty.
text: 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.
ref: 1882, T. E. Kebbel, Selected Speeches of the Late Right Hon. the Earl of Beaconsfield, volume 2, page 495:
text: Another twenty years along the present line of development, and India will be a peasant republic linked with England only by voluntary alliance.
ref: 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:
text: 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.
ref: 1948, Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm, page 303:
glosses: Synonym of Great Britain or United Kingdom.
synonyms: word: Great Britain or United Kingdom
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
glosses: A city in Lonoke County, Arkansas, United States.
Synonyms: word: Albion
word: Blighty
word: England
word: Land of Hope and Glory
word: Limeyland
word: Old Blighty
word: Old Dart
word: perfidious Albion
word: Pomgolia
Meronyms: word: Bedfordshire
word: Berkshire
word: Buckinghamshire
word: Cambridgeshire
word: Cheshire
word: City of London
word: Cornwall
word: County Durham
word: Cumberland
word: Cumbria
word: Derbyshire
word: Devon
word: Dorset
word: Essex
word: Gloucestershire
word: Greater London
word: Greater Manchester
word: Hampshire
word: Herefordshire
word: Hertfordshire
word: Huntingdonshire
word: Kent
word: Lancashire
word: Leicestershire
word: Lincolnshire
word: Merseyside
word: Middlesex
word: Norfolk
word: Northamptonshire
word: Northumberland
word: Nottinghamshire
word: Oxfordshire
word: Rutland
word: Shropshire
word: Somerset
word: Staffordshire
word: Suffolk
word: Surrey
word: Sussex
word: Tyne and Wear
word: Warwickshire
word: West Midlands
word: Westmorland
word: Wiltshire
word: Worcestershire
word: Yorkshire
word: East Anglia
word: Midlands
word: West Country
word: Wales
word: Mercia
word: Northumbria
word: Wessex
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
Garden of England
Kingdom of England
lie back and think of England
Little Englander
Middle England
Middle Englander
New England
North East England
Northern England
Northern England English
North of England
safe as the Bank of England
think of England
Related terms: word: Anglican
word: anglicise
word: anglicize
word: Anglo-
word: English
word: Englishman
word: Englishwoman
word: Bristolian
word: Brummie
word: Cornish
word: Cornishman
word: Cornishwoman
word: Cumbrian
word: East Anglian
word: Geordie
word: Lancastrian
word: Liverpudlian
word: Loiner
word: Londoner
word: Mancunian
word: Northumbrian
word: Novocastrian
word: Scouser
word: Yorkshireman
word: Yorkshirewoman