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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A division of the United Kingdom, in the southern part of the island of Great Britain. Inhabited in prehistoric times by Celtic peoples, it was subsequently invaded by Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, and Normans. Acts of union joined England with Wales in 1536, with Scotland in 1707 to create the political entity of Great Britain, and with Ireland in 1801 to form the United Kingdom. London is the historic capital and the largest city.

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  • proper noun Part of the island of Great Britain next to Wales, to the south of Scotland. Now specified geopolitically as one of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom.
  • proper noun A habitational surname.

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  • noun a division of the United Kingdom

Etymologies

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From Old English Engles land ("land of the Angles"), from genitive of Engle ("the Angles") + land ("land").

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Examples

  • • Capello demands more fight from England• Kevin McCarra's match report: England 3-1 Mexico• Paul Hayward's verdict on Ledley King's display• Barney Ronay: Adrian Chiles made an impish ITV debutWhile Mexico seldom distinguish themselves at the World Cup, neither do they go home in humiliation.

    Chelsea contingent make absence felt in disjointed England display Richard Williams at Wembley 2010

  • Also he is in the critically acclaimed ''This is england'' about the movement of the skinheads in the 80's in England and many other things great great actor i expect a lot from him.

    HBO Picks Up Scorsese’s Series Boardwalk Empire | /Film 2009

  • "I am on my way to England for reasons partly personal" (I think this hints at a hope not altogether dead, which had been his close companion through his two years of absence), "partly connected with the interests of my Bagdad friends, _and my imagination is in England_."

    Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking

  • In the last year of his life he began again on the early history of England, working at a pace which would have been astonishing even in a man of robust health, and he completed in the short period of eleven months the brilliant volume called _The Making of England_.

    Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

  • 'Mothers,' 'Wives,' 'Maids,' and 'Daughters' of England has another work in press, entitled '_The Grandmothers of England_.'

    The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

  • D. Innes, _History of England and the British Empire_, Vol. III (1914), ch. vii-ix, xi; C.G. Robertson, _England under the Hanoverians_

    A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

  • England: H.O. Wakeman, _An Introduction to the H.story of the Church of England_, 5th ed. (1898), ch. xviii, xix; J.H. O.erton and Frederic

    A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

  • _Theory of Poetry in England_, which aims at giving us a representative selection of the theoretical things which were said in England about poetry between the time of Elizabeth and the time of Victoria, makes one wonder at the barrenness of men's thoughts about so fruitful a world as that of the poets.

    The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914

  • But it will astound any lawyer to learn that the subsequent escape of these same prisoners from Holland to England could be reasonably regarded as a guidance by Miss Cavell of these soldiers _to England_.

    The Case of Edith Cavell A Study of the Rights of Non-Combatants 1898

  • EDWARD I., who lived and died in England, as it is represented in No. 322 -- the _field, chequée or and azure_, being for De Dreux; the _canton ermine_ for Brittany; and the _bordure, gules charged with golden lions of England_, representing the royal Shield of England, and showing the close connection existing between the Earl of Richmond and his

    The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844

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