Cumbria

[ kuhm-bree-uh ]

/ ˈkʌm bri ə /

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noun

a county in NW England. 2,659 sq. mi. (6,886 sq. km).

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How to use Cumbria in a sentence

Although eagles are now more than rare in Britain, there was a time when they bred among the crags of Cumbria.
Poachers and Poaching|John Watson
But the mountains of Wales and the moors of Cornwall and Cumbria did not greatly tempt the settler.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5|Various
A Frenchman chartered her, but he's dead now, as is almost everybody connected with the Cumbria.
For Jacinta|Harold Bindloss
The Britons of Cumbria who had come to be tributaries of the Northumbrian kings, were thus included in it.
The Lives of the Saints, Volume III (of 16): March|Sabine Baring-Gould

Jefferson glanced at the dingy forest, flaming creek, and the Cumbria's slanted deck with a little glow in his eyes.
For Jacinta|Harold Bindloss

British Dictionary definitions for Cumbria

Cumbria

/ (ˈkʌmbrɪə) /

noun

(since 1974) a county of NW England comprising the former counties of Westmorland and Cumberland together with N Lancashire: includes the Lake District mountain area and surrounding coastal lowlands with the Pennine uplands in the extreme east. Administrative centre: Carlisle. Pop: 489 800 (2003 est). Area: 6810 sq km (2629 sq miles)

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