East Anglia


noun
  1. an early English kingdom in SE Britain: modern Norfolk and Suffolk.

Other words from East Anglia

  • East Anglian, adjective, noun

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East Anglia

noun
  1. a region of E England south of the Wash: consists of Norfolk and Suffolk, and parts of Essex and Cambridgeshire

  2. an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk in the 6th century ad; became a dependency of Mercia in the 8th century

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