East Anglia

American  

noun

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

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East Anglia British  

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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Other Word Forms

• East Anglian adjective

Example Sentences

In a lab at the University of East Anglia in Norwich we watch as he simulates what a toilet flush does to a wipe.

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In 2010, the plant was only found at three sites in East Anglia and at one site in Wales.

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We are less likely to see clear skies overnight on Wednesday although there could be some early on for East Anglia and later for northern Scotland.

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By Sunday morning rain will have moved into Northern Ireland and will then progress eastwards to all but East Anglia and southeast England by dusk.

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Next year, Moyse's Hall Museum will open an exhibition about the witch trials in the county and throughout East Anglia which will include artefacts it said had never been seen on public display before.

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