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English

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National flag of England
Location of England in Europe

Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Germanic *angliz
    Old English Engle
    Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-
    Proto-Indo-European *-om
    Proto-Germanic *landą
    Proto-West Germanic *land
    Old English land
    Old English Engla land
    Middle English Engelond
    English England

    From Middle English Engelond, England, from Old English Engla land (literally “land of the Angles”), from genitive of Engle (“the Angles”) + land (“land”).

    Pronunciation

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    • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɪŋɡlənd/, (non-standard) /ˈɪŋɡələnd/
    • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɪŋɡlənd/, (also) /ˈɪŋlənd/
    • Audio (UK):(file)
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    • Hyphenation: Eng‧land

    Proper noun

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    England (usually uncountable, plural Englands)

    2. The largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom; established in southern Britain by Aethelstan of Wessex in 927.
      We thoroughly enjoyed our vacation in Britain. We visited England, Wales, and Scotland.
      Just close your eyes and think of England.
      • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
        Gaunt ...This royall throne of Kings, this sceptred Ile,
        This earth of maiesty, this seate of Mars,
        This other Eden, demy Paradice,
        This fortresse built by Nature for her selfe,
        Against infection and the hand of warre,
        This happy breede of men, this little world,
        This precious stone set in the siluer sea,
        Which serues it in the office of a wall,
        Or as moate defensiue to a house,
        Against the enuie of lesse happier lands.
        This blessed plot, this earth, this realme, this England...
        Is now leasde out...
        That England that was wont to conquer others,
        Hath made a shamefull conquest
        of it selfe...
      • 1804, William Blake, Milton, Vol. I, Preface:
        And did those feet in ancient time
        Walk upon England’s mountains green?
        And was the holy Lamb of God
        On England’s pleasant pastures seen?...
        I will not cease from Mental Fight,
        Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand,
        Till we have built Jerusalem
        In England’s green & pleasant Land.
      • 1864, Victor Hugo, chapter 6, in Amédée Baillot, transl., William Shakespeare:
        What is England? She is Elizabeth... To live alone, to go alone, to reign alone, to be alone,—such is Elizabeth, such is England...
        England has two books: one which she has made, the other which has made her,—Shakespeare and the Bible. 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 of Shakespeare's much-quoted passage, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. It has rich relations who have to be kow-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, page 203:
        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 is England," 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" in The New Yorker:
        Had they responded this way in France or America, this wouldn't have surprised me, but wasn't everyone in England 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.
    4. (historical) The territory of the Angles and (later) Anglo-Saxons in Britain at any given time before the founding of the Kingdom of England, or the territory of the English people at any given time, in either the Kingdom of England or the United Kingdom.
    7. (dated, sometimes proscribed) Synonym of Great Britain or United 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[2], volume 2, page 495:
        There is a very near analogy between the position of the President of the United States and that of the Prime Minister of England, 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 with England only by voluntary alliance.
      • 1948, Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm‎[3], page 303:
        The partition of Czechoslovakia under pressure from England and France amounts to the complete surrender of the Western Democracies to the Nazi threat of force.
    9. A habitational surname from Old English.
    11. (US) A city in Lonoke County, Arkansas, United States.

    Usage notes

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    As England has always been the most populous part of the United Kingdom, its name has often been used metonymously 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 1746 Wales & 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 1967 Welsh Language Act required that any similarly general laws afterwards must specify England and Wales separately.

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    Danish

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    Etymology

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    (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

    Proper noun

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    England

    1. England
    2. (informal, somewhat dated) Great Britain (an island in Western Europe)
    3. (informal, somewhat dated) United Kingdom (a country in Western Europe)

    German

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    Etymology

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    From Old English Engaland.

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    England n (proper noun, genitive Englands or (optionally with an article) England)

    1. England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)
    2. (somewhat informal) Great Britain (an island in Western Europe)
    3. (somewhat informal) United Kingdom (a country in Western Europe)
    4. (informal, proscribed) the British Isles (an archipelago in Western Europe, including Ireland)

    Usage notes

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    • 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 entities as a whole. It is, however, now uncommon to use England 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.

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    Further reading

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    • “England” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

    Hunsrik

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    Etymology

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      Etymology tree
      Proto-Germanic *angliz
      Old English Engle
      Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-
      Proto-Indo-European *-om
      Proto-Germanic *landą
      Proto-West Germanic *land
      Old English land
      Old English Engla land
      Middle English Engelondbor.
      Middle High German Engellant
      Hunsrik England

      From Middle High German Engellant, borrowed from Middle English Engelond, from Old English Engla land.[1]

      Cognate with German, Luxembourgish, and Pennsylvania German England.

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      England n

      1. England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)
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      countries in Europe: ëuropäische Land (appendix)edit

      References

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      1. ^ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “England”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 42, column 1

      Icelandic

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      Etymology

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      From Old Norse Ęngland.

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      England n (proper noun, genitive singular Englands)

      1. England

      Declension

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      Declension of England (sg-only neuter)
      indefinite singular
      nominative England
      accusative England
      dative Englandi
      genitive Englands

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      Luxembourgish

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      Pronunciation

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      • IPA(key): /ˈæŋˌlant/, [ˈæŋˌlɑnt]

      Proper noun

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      England n

      1. England

      Malay

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      Etymology

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      Borrowed from English England.

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      England (Jawi spelling ايڠلند)

      1. England.
        Coordinate term: Inggeris

      Middle English

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      England

      1. Alternative form of Engelond
        • 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 wtnesse here that nos ꝑsone wtin the Raume of England ought for to bere hem but the seid John and the heirs of his body lawfully begaten. In wtnesse wherof to thise ꝉres I have sette my seall of armes and my signe manuell.

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      1. ^ Willoughby Aston Littledale, editor (1925), A Collection of Miscellaneous Grants, Crests, Confirmations, Augmentations and Exemplifications of Arms in the Mss. Preserved in the British Museum, Ashmolean Library, Queen's College, Oxford, and Elsewhere‎[1], volume 76, London: J. Whitehead and Son, Ltd., →OCLC, pages 2–3

      Norwegian Bokmål

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      Proper noun

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      England

      1. England
      2. (informal, dated) Great Britain (an island in Western Europe)
      3. (informal, dated) United Kingdom (a country in Western Europe)
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      Norwegian Nynorsk

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      Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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      Etymology

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      (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

      Pronunciation

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      • IPA(key): /ˈɛŋlɑn/, /ˈɛŋlɑnd/

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      England

      1. England
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      Old Swedish

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      Proper noun

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      England n

      1. England
        • " var sanctus thomas först konungx cancAläre j englande"
          Konung Alexander. Utg. af G.E. Klemming. 1862.

      Declension

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      Singular
      Indefinite
      Nominative England
      Accusative England
      Dative Englandi, Englande
      Genitive Englands

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      Swedish

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      Etymology

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      From Old Swedish England, Engeland, Engelandh.

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      England n (genitive Englands)

      1. England

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