Deira

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪɹə/, /ˈdɛəɹə/

Noun

Deira (plural Deiras)

1. A region of post-Roman Britain, later an Anglian Kingdom.
   • 1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 19:

     The domains of her ancestor, “the magnificent Earl Oslac,” who lived in the days of King Edgar, were Deira – that is, Danish Northumbria, from Humber to Tees; and he may have sprung from (as his name hints) the ancient kings of Deira.