Britain

[brit-n]

noun

1. Great Britain.

2. Britannia.

Britain

/ ˈbrɪtən /

noun

1. another name for Great Britain United Kingdom

Britain

1. Officially the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, located on the British Isles off the western coast of the mainland (continent) of Europe. It comprises England, Wales, and Scotland on the island of Great Britain, and Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland. Its capital and largest city is London.

It is one of the world's leading industrialized nations.

Most of the settlers of the American colonies were British. The colonies remained under the British crown until the American Revolutionary War.

Britain declared war on Germany in 1939. Allied with the United States and the Soviet Union, the British, under the leadership of Winston Churchill, played an important role in defeating Germany.

At the height of its imperial power in the late nineteenth century, Britain boasted colonies and possessions around the globe. (See British Empire.)

A constitutional monarchy, Britain's government calls for the hereditary king or queen to perform mostly ceremonial functions. Parliament governs the country.

Example Sentences

The George Medal is Britain's second-highest civilian bravery award after the George Cross, and is given for "conspicuous gallantry not in the presence of the enemy".

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"So, we've got, across Britain, more than 20 rail operators, and the system, I'm afraid, is pretty much broken," he said.

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Insisting it was "pronounced Bouquet," Hyacinth ran roughshod over her long-suffering husband and bewildered neighbours in Keeping Up Appearances, one of Britain's most successful sitcoms in the 1990s.

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At 17:49 PM Starmer chaired a Downing Street press briefing, telling reporters that antisemitic hatred is "rising once again" and that Britain, must now "defeat it once again".

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Britain has half a dozen dedicated military satellites in orbit providing communications and surveillance.

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