Britain

[ brit-n ]

noun

1. Great Britain.
2. Britannia ( def 1 ).

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 .

Notes

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

Britain’s first new nuclear power station since the mid-1990s is being built on a stretch of remote coastline in southwest England.

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At 10am, red lights flashed up on a map of Britain as prepayment meters ran out of money, and the firm extended “friendly credit” to avoid a middle-of-the-night cut off.

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This is the second round of cuts to hit Ford’s operations in Britain in less than two years.

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Britain is one of the destinations he has in mind, along with the Netherlands and Germany.

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Savile was one of Britain’s most notorious and prolific sex offenders.

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