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East Anglian

adjective

  1. of or relating to East Anglia or its inhabitants
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of East Anglia
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

In some cases our East Anglian dialect is merely a survival of old English, as when we say ‘axe’ for ‘ask.’

An M.P., who shall be nameless, supplies me with an apt illustration of East Anglian dialect.

As a town, it is more prettily situated than are most East Anglian villages and towns.

In all the East Anglian meeting-houses fifty years ago such men abounded.

The East Anglian thanes had a way of singing together which was new to me and pleased me well.

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