FromMiddle EnglishEngelond,England, fromOld EnglishEngla land(literally“land of theAngles”), from genitive ofEngle(“the Angles”) +land(“land”).

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ˈɪŋɡlənd/,(non-standard)/ˈɪŋɡələnd/
• (US)IPA^(key):/ˈɪŋɡlənd/,(also)/ˈɪŋlənd/

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• (Indic)IPA^(key):/iŋɡˈlæɳɖ/
• Hyphenation:Eng‧land

England (usuallyuncountable,pluralEnglands)

2. The largest and most populousconstituent country of theUnited Kingdom; established in southern Britain byAethelstan ofWessex in 927 .

   We thoroughly enjoyed our vacation in Britain. We visitedEngland, Wales, and Scotland.

   Just close your eyes and think ofEngland.

   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance),William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene i]:

     Gaunt ...Thisroyall throne of Kings, thissceptredIle,
     This earth ofmaiesty, thisseate of Mars,
     This other Eden,demyParadice,
     Thisfortresse built by Nature forher selfe,
     Against infection and the hand ofwarre,
     This happybreede of men, this little world,
     This precious stone set in thesiluer sea,
     Whichserues it in the office of a wall,
     Or asmoatedefensiue to a house,
     Against theenuie oflesse happier lands.
     This blessed plot, this earth, thisrealme, thisEngland...
     Is nowleasde out...
     ThatEngland that was wont to conquer others,
     Hath made ashamefull conquest
     ofit selfe...

   • 1804,William Blake,Milton, Vol. I, Preface:

     And did those feet in ancient time
     Walk uponEngland’s mountains green?
     And was the holyLamb of God
     OnEngland’s pleasant pastures seen?...
     I will not cease from Mental Fight,
     Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand,
     Till we have builtJerusalem
     InEngland’s green & pleasant Land.

   • 1864,Victor Hugo, chapter 6, in Amédée Baillot, transl.,William Shakespeare:

     What isEngland? She isElizabeth... To live alone, to go alone, to reign alone, to be alone,—such is Elizabeth, such isEngland...
     England has two books: one which she has made, the other which has made her,—Shakespeare and theBible. These two books do not agree together... Shakespeare thinks, Shakespeare dreams, Shakespeare doubts... Moreover, Shakespeare invents.

   • 1941,George Orwell,The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:

     England is not the jewelled isle ofShakespeare's much-quoted passage, nor is it the inferno depicted byDr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffyVictorian family, with not manyblack sheep but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. It has rich relations who have to bekow-towed to and poor relations who are horribly sat upon, and there is a deep conspiracy of silence about the source of the family income.

   • 1983,William S. Burroughs,The Place of Dead Roads,page203:

     England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire.

   • 2012,Maureen Johnson,The Madness Underneath:

     "This isEngland," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources."

   • 2013 March 25,David Sedaris, "Long Way Home" inThe New Yorker:

     Had they responded this way in France or America, this wouldn't have surprised me, but wasn't everyone inEngland supposed to be a detective? Wasn't every crime, no matter how complex, solved in a timely fashion by either a professional or a hobbyist? That's the impression you get from British books and TV shows.

   • 2023 March 21, Jessie Gretener, “Progestagen-only contraceptives carry similar, small breast cancer risk as other hormone contraceptives, study finds”, inCNN‎^[2]:

     The authors also said they attempted to investigate whether there are differing breast cancer risks between hormonal and nonhormonal IUDs. However, they said too few women inEngland had been prescribed nonhormonal IUDs to make a reliable comparison.

4. (historical) The territory of theAngles and (later)Anglo-Saxons in Britain at any given time before the founding of theKingdom of England, or the territory of theEnglish people at any given time, in either theKingdom of England or theUnited Kingdom.
6. (chieflylaw,historical orarchaic)Synonym ofEngland and Wales.
8. (dated, sometimesproscribed)Synonym ofGreat Britain orUnited Kingdom.

   England expects that every man will do his duty.

   • 1882, T. E. Kebbel,Selected Speeches of the Late Right Hon. the Earl of Beaconsfield‎^[3], volume 2, page495:

     There is a very near analogy between the position of the President of the United States and that of the Prime Minister ofEngland, and both are paid at much the same rate — the income of a second-class professional man.

   • 1941,George Orwell,The Lion and the Unicorn:

     Another twenty years along the present line of development, and India will be a peasant republic linked withEngland only by voluntary alliance.

   • 1948, Winston S. Churchill,The Gathering Storm‎^[4], page303:

     The partition of Czechoslovakia under pressure fromEngland and France amounts to the complete surrender of the Western Democracies to the Nazi threat of force.

10. A habitationalsurname from Old English.
12. (US) Acity inLonoke County,Arkansas,United States.

As England has always been the most populous part of the United Kingdom, its name has often been usedmetonymously for the country as a whole, both in English and in other languages. This usage is now often considered uninformed or insulting, particularly to those from other parts of Britain. The 1746Wales & Berwick Act formalized the previous informal understanding that laws referencing the Kingdom of England alone also applied to the Principality of Wales; this continued to be the case until the 1967Welsh Language Act required that any similarly general laws afterwards must specify England and Wales separately.

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FromOld EnglishEngla land.

England

1. England (aconstituent country of theUnited Kingdom)
2. (informal, somewhatdated)Great Britain (a largeisland of theUnited Kingdom inNorthern Europe)
3. (informal, somewhatdated)United Kingdom (akingdom andcountry inNorthern Europe)

FromOld EnglishEngaland.

• IPA^(key):/ˈɛŋlant/

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• Rhymes:-ant

England n (proper noun,genitiveEnglandsor(optionally with an article)England)

1. England (aconstituent country of theUnited Kingdom)
2. (somewhatinformal)Great Britain (a largeisland of theUnited Kingdom inNorthern Europe)
3. (somewhatinformal)United Kingdom (akingdom andcountry inNorthern Europe)
4. (informal,proscribed)theBritish Isles (anarchipelago inWestern Europe, includingIreland)

• In formal usage,England referring to Great Britain or the United Kingdom is now very rare.
• In common speech,England continues to be the most common word for the two respective entitiesas a whole. It is, however, now uncommon to useEngland when referring specifically to a place or incident in Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland. In such a case, the respective word would normally be used (Schottland,Wales,Nordirland).
• The usage including the Republic of Ireland, which is sometimes heard, is conspicuously nonstandard.

• Engelland(archaic)
• (Great Britain):Großbritannien,GB
• (United Kingdom):Vereinigtes Königreich,VK

• Engländer
• engländisch
• Altengland
• Mittelengland
• Neuengland
• Nordengland
• Ostengland
• Südengland

• Angelland
• englisch
  • Englisch

• “England” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

FromMiddle High GermanEngellant, borrowed fromMiddle EnglishEngelond, fromOld EnglishEngla land.^[1]

Cognate withGerman,Luxembourgish, andPennsylvania GermanEngland.

• IPA^(key):/ˈɛŋlant/
• Rhymes:-ɛŋlant
• Syllabification:Eng‧land

England n

1. England (aconstituent country of theUnited Kingdom)

FromOld NorseĘngland.

• IPA^(key):/ˈeiŋ.lant/

England n (proper noun,genitive singularEnglands)

1. England (aconstituent country of theUnited Kingdom)

• Englendingur
• enskur
• Nýja-England

• IPA^(key):/ˈæŋˌlant/,[ˈæŋˌlɑnt]

England n

1. England (aconstituent country of theUnited Kingdom)

Borrowed fromEnglishEngland.

• IPA^(key):[ɪŋ.ɡlən(d)]
• Rhymes:-ənd,-ən
• Hyphenation:En‧gland

England (Jawi spellingايڠلند)

1. England (aconstituent country of theUnited Kingdom)

   Coordinate term:Inggeris

England

1. Alternative form ofEngelond
   • 1454, Roger Leigh,Clarenceux King of Arms,Confirmation of Arms to John Aleyn of Buckinghamshire :^{[enm 1]}

     Which armes I the seid Clarensewe King of Armes conferme unto the seid John and w^tnesse here that nos ꝑsone w^tin the Raume ofEngland ought for to bere hem but the seid John and the heirs of his body lawfully begaten. In w^tnesse wherof to thise ꝉres I have sette my seall of armes and my signe manuell.

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England

1. England (aconstituent country of theUnited Kingdom)
2. (informal ordated)Great Britain (a largeisland of theUnited Kingdom inNorthern Europe)
3. (informal ordated)United Kingdom (akingdom andcountry inNorthern Europe)

• engelsk
• engelskmann
• englender

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• IPA^(key):/ˈɛŋlɑn/,/ˈɛŋlɑnd/

England

1. England (aconstituent country of theUnited Kingdom)

• engelsk
• engelskmann

England n

1. A medievalkingdom inNorthern Europe
   • " var sanctus thomas först konungx cancAläre jenglande"

     Konung Alexander. Utg. af G.E. Klemming. 1862.

• > Swedish:England(inherited)
  • → Finnish:Englanti

• “kanceläre” in Old Swedish Dictionary

FromOld SwedishEngland,Engeland,Engelandh.

• IPA^(key):/ˈɛŋland/

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England n (genitiveEnglands)

1. England (aconstituent country of theUnited Kingdom)

• → Finnish:Englanti