England
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[edit] English
| Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg. | ||||||
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| hold | cause | close | #419: England | sense | ten | beautiful |
[edit] Etymology
From Old English Engla land (“‘land of the Angles’”), from genitive plural of engle (“‘Angle’”) + land (“‘land’”).
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[edit] Proper noun
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England
- The southern part of the island of Great Britain, now specified geopolitically as one of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom.
[edit] Usage notes
- Outside the United Kingdom, and even in England itself, the term “England” is often misused as a synonym for the United Kingdom as a whole.
- Much of British legislation is limited to England and Wales as a unit, and the English-speaking parts of Wales are almost indistinguishable from England.
- Cornwall is the only part of England to have its own language, and is considered by a small minority of its inhabitants to be separate from England.
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England
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Related terms
[edit] German
[edit] Pronunciation
IPA: /ˈɛŋlant/
[edit] Proper noun
England n.
- England
[edit] Icelandic
| Declension of England | ||||||
| (singular) | (plural) | |||||
| (indefinite) | (definite) | (indefinite) | (definite) | |||
| nominative | England | - | - | - | ||
| accusative | England | - | - | - | ||
| dative | Englandi | - | - | - | ||
| genitive | Englands | - | - | - | ||
| Other words with the same declension | ||||||
[edit] Proper noun
England n.
- England
[edit] Derived terms
- Englendingur
- enskur m., ensk f., enskt n.
[edit] Swedish
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[edit] Noun
England
- England

