United-kingdom Synonyms

A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. britain
  2. great-britain
  3. england
  4. uk
  5. united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-ireland
  6. scotland
  7. northern-ireland
  8. Wales; the British Isles
  9. albion
  10. blighty
  11. britannia
  12. the mother country
  13. british-empire
  14. commonwealth-of-nations
  15. u-k
  16. G.B.
  17. Land of the Rose
  18. limeyland

United-kingdom Sentence Examples

  • In the United Kingdom the employment of brewery yeasts selected from a single cell has not come into general use; it may probably be accounted for in a great measure by conservatism and the wrong application of Hansen's theories.

  • When the custom of commendation developed, the king charged the mayor of the palace to protect those who had commended themselves to him and to 1 The mayors of certain cities in the United Kingdom (London, York, Dublin) have acquired by prescription the prefix of "lord."

  • The visits to the United Kingdom of properly organized teams of bowlers from Australia and New Zealand in 1901 and from Canada in 1904 demonstrated that the game had gained enormously in popularity.

  • In the United Kingdom the regular bowling season extends from May day till the end of September or the middle of October.

  • The Board of Agriculture has the power to close the ports of the United Kingdom against live animals from any country in which contagious disease is known to exist.

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