ENGLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does England mean? 

• ENGLAND (noun)
  The noun ENGLAND has 1 sense:

1. a division of the United Kingdom

  Familiarity information: ENGLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENGLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A division of the United Kingdom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)

Meronyms (parts of "England"):

West Sussex (a county in southern England on the English Channel)

Yorkshire (a former large county in northern England; in 1974 it was divided into three smaller counties)

Marston Moor (a former moor in northern England)

Surrey (a county in southeastern England on the Thames)

Lancashire (a historical area of northwestern England on the Irish Sea; noted for textiles)

East Anglia (a region of eastern England that was formerly a kingdom)

Northumberland (the northernmost county of England; has many Roman remains (including Hadrian's Wall))

Lincolnshire (an agricultural county of eastern England on the North Sea)

Leicester; Leicestershire (a largely agricultural county in central England)

South Yorkshire (a metropolitan county in northern England)

East Sussex (a county in southern England on the English Channel)

Somerset (a county in southwestern England on the Bristol Channel)

Kent (a county in southeastern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it was the first to be colonized by the Romans)

Hertfordshire (a county in southern England)

Hampshire (a county of southern England on the English Channel)

Gloucestershire (a county in southwestern England in the lower Severn valley)

Essex (a county in southeastern England on the North Sea and the Thames estuary)

Devon; Devonshire (a county in southwestern England)

Cumbria (a former Celtic kingdom in northwestern England; the name continued to be used for the hilly northwestern region of England including the Lake District and the northern Pennines)

Cumbria (a county of northwestern England)

Aire; Aire River; River Aire (a river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire)

River Tyne; Tyne; Tyne River (a river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea)

River Trent; Trent; Trent River (a river in central England that flows generally northeastward to join with the Ouse River and form the Humber)

River Thames; Thames; Thames River (the longest river in England; flows eastward through London to the North Sea)

River Severn; Severn; Severn River (a river in England and Wales flowing into the Bristol Channel; the longest river in Great Britain)

Ouse; Ouse River (a river in northeastern England that flows generally southeastward to join the Trent River and form the Humber)

Humber (an estuary in central northeastern England formed by the Ouse River and the Trent River)

Cam; Cam River; River Cam (a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River)

Avon; River Avon (a river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn)

Avon; River Avon; Upper Avon; Upper Avon River (a river in central England that flows through Stratford-on-Avon and empties into the Severn)

North Yorkshire (a county in northern England)

Isles of Scilly; Scilly Islands (an archipelago of small islands off the southwestern coast of England near the entrance to the English Channel; formerly a haven for smugglers and pirates)

Hadrian's Wall (an ancient Roman wall built by Hadrian in the 2nd century; marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire in Britain)

Wessex (a Saxon kingdom in southwestern England that became the most powerful English kingdom by the 10th century)

Sussex (a county in southern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that was captured by Wessex in the 9th century)

West Country (the southwestern part of England (including Cornwall and Devon and Somerset))

Northumbria (an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in northern England until 876)

Northamptonshire (a county is central England)

Berkshire (a county in southern England)

West Yorkshire (a metropolitan county in northern England)

Cornwall (a hilly county in southwestern England)

Cotswold Hills; Cotswolds (a range of low hills in southwestern England)

Cheviot Hills; Cheviots (a range of hills on the border between England and Scotland)

Pennine Chain; Pennines (a system of hills in Britain that extend from the Scottish border in the north to the Trent River in the south; forms the watershed for English rivers)

Lancaster (a city in northwestern England)

Lake District; Lakeland (a popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain)

British capital; capital of the United Kingdom; Greater London; London (the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center)

Manchester (a city in northwestern England (30 miles to the east of Liverpool); heart of the most densely populated area of England)

Hull; Kingston-upon Hull (a large fishing port in northeastern England)

Liverpool (a large city in northwestern England; its port is the country's major outlet for industrial exports)

Birmingham; Brummagem (a city in central England; 2nd largest English city and an important industrial and transportation center)

Oxford (a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University)

Cambridge (a city in eastern England on the River Cam; site of Cambridge University)

Bath (a town in southwestern England on the River Avon; famous for its hot springs and Roman remains)

Brighton (a city in East Sussex in southern England that is a popular resort; site of the University of Sussex)

Bristol (an industrial city and port in southwestern England near the mouth of the River Avon)

Cheddar (a village in southwestern England where cheddar cheese was first made)

Leicester (an industrial city in Leicestershire in central England; built on the site of a Roman settlement)

Newcastle; Newcastle-upon-Tyne (a port city in northeastern England on the River Tyne; a center for coal exports (giving rise to the expression 'carry coals to Newcastle' meaning to do something unnecessary))

Pompey; Portsmouth (a port city in southern England on the English Channel; Britain's major naval base)

Coventry (an industrial city in central England; devastated by air raids during World War II; remembered as the home of Lady Godiva in the 11th century)

Gloucester (a city in southwestern England in Gloucestershire on the Severn)

Reading (a city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England)

Sunderland (a port and industrial city in northeastern England)

Blackpool (a resort town in Lancashire in northwestern England on the Irish Sea; famous for its tower)

Worcester (a cathedral city in west central England on the River Severn)

Avon (a county in southwestern England)

Meronyms (members of "England"):

Englishman (a man who is a native or inhabitant of England)

Englishwoman (a woman who is a native or inhabitant of England)

English person (a native or inhabitant of England)

Domain member region:

Regency (the period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent during George III's periods of insanity)

GCSE; General Certificate of Secondary Education; O level (the basic level of a subject taken in school)

Great Revolt; Peasant's Revolt (a widespread rebellion in 1381 against poll taxes and other inequities that oppressed the poorer people of England; suppressed by Richard II)

A level (the advanced level of a subject taken in school (usually two years after O level))

Alfred Alistair Cooke; Alistair Cooke; Cooke (United States journalist (born in England in 1908))

fancy man; pandar; pander; panderer; pimp; ponce; procurer (someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce))

franklin (a landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth)

esquire ((Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood)

borderer (an inhabitant of a border area (especially the border between Scotland and England))

Saxon (of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language)

Sherwood Forest (an ancient forest in central England; formerly a royal hunting ground; said to be the home of Robin Hood and his merry band)

Puritanism (the beliefs and practices characteristic of Puritans (most of whom were Calvinists who wished to purify the Church of England of its Catholic aspects))

balldress (a suit or dress for formal occasions)

War of the Roses; Wars of the Roses (struggle for the English throne (1455-1485) between the house of York (white rose) and the house of Lancaster (red rose) ending with the accession of the Tudor monarch Henry VII)

Restoration (the re-establishment of the British monarchy in 1660)

English Civil War (civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I; 1644-1648)

battle of Tewkesbury; Tewkesbury (the final battle of the War of the Roses in 1471 in which Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians)

Battle of Naseby; Naseby (a battle in 1645 that settled the outcome of the first English Civil War as the Parliamentarians won a major victory over the Royalists)

battle of Marston Moor; Marston Moor (a battle in 1644 in which the Parliamentarians under the earl of Manchester defeated the Royalists under Prince Rupert)

Battle of Maldon; Maldon (a battle in which the Danes defeated the Saxons in 991; celebrated in an old English poem)

battle of Hastings; Hastings (the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest)

Battle of Flodden Field; Flodden (a battle in 1513; the English defeated the invading Scots and James IV was killed)

Instance hyponyms:

Albion (archaic name for England or Great Britain; used poetically)

Anglia (the Latin name for England)

Holonyms ("England" is a part of...):

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

Derivation:

English (of or relating to or characteristic of England or its culture or people)

 Context examples 

A servant in Geneva does not mean the same thing as a servant in France and England.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And thinking of the old 'un is a thing she never done, I do assure you, since she left England!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that genetic testing can determine the likelihood of the cancer returning.

(Study Shows Chemotherapy Not Needed To Treat Many Breast Cancers, Carol Pearson/VOA)

Through them I have come to know your great England; and to know her is to love her.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Astronomers at the University of Cambridge in England announced the discovery of a dwarf star, known as EBLM J0555-57Ab, which is slightly bigger than Saturn and smaller than Jupiter.

(Astronomers discover smallest known star, Wikinews)

The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

(New Genetic Discovery May Eventually End Premature Birth, VOA)

It is nothing less than the ancient crown of the Kings of England.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you'll come up one by one, unarmed, I'll engage to clap you all in irons and take you home to a fair trial in England.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"What will they say in England of this?"

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We zig-zagged swiftly here and there over Europe to throw off the pursuers and finally returned to this house, which he had taken upon his first arrival in England.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)