East Anglia

noun

1. an early English kingdom in SE Britain: modern Norfolk and Suffolk.

East Anglia

noun

1. a region of E England south of the Wash: consists of Norfolk and Suffolk, and parts of Essex and Cambridgeshire
2. an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk in the 6th century ad ; became a dependency of Mercia in the 8th century

Other Words From

• East Anglian adjective noun

Example Sentences

This is a future city for 60,000 inhabitants, envisioned along the River Stour and the Port of Harwich in East Anglia, England.

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The research describes the derring-do of a team of scientists working at University of East Anglia.

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University of East Anglia climatologist Phil Jones followed in his footsteps when some emails of his leaked to the press.

From The Daily Beast

Even in our out-of-the-way corner of East Anglia not a little consternation was felt.

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The Danes in East Anglia were then an immense army, and thus at once they were turned from foes into friends.

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Much such a man, perhaps a descendant, travelled East Anglia about 1866.

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The large Scandinavian element also points to the northern part of East Anglia.

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Nearly at the same time East Anglia and Essex, at the command of pagan-kings, had discarded it likewise.

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