United Kingdom

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noun

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 (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
UK, U.K., Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain
• Derivationally related forms:
Britannic (for: Britain)
• Members of this Usage Domain:
parky (for: Britain), baking tray (for: Britain), zebra crossing (for: Britain), sandpit (for: Britain), sanitary towel (for: Britain), signal tower (for: Britain), jumper (for: Britain), remit (for: Britain), groundnut oil (for: Britain), veg (for: Britain), chips (for: Britain), expat (for: Britain), nanna (for: Britain), nan (for: Britain), shop assistant (for: Britain), mo (for: Britain)
• Members of this Region:
potted, fly, pawky, dinky, dishy,
non-U, u, starkers, boss-eyed, canty, common or garden,
groovy, swagger, gammy, all-mains, niffy, swingeing,
shirty, snorty, po-faced, peckish, dicky, dickey,
potty, whacking, long-dated, short-dated, takeout, take-away,
red-brick, redbrick, grotty, post-free, buckshee, made-up,
chuffed, jumped-up, toffee-nosed, major, minor, billion,
trillion, tod, bloody-minded, cantankerous, bolshy, stroppy,
capital, spiffing, top-flight, top-hole, topping, ropey,
ropy, gobsmacked, jiggered, buttoned-up, Brummagem, ratable,
rateable, unratable, knackered, drained, whacked, manky,
tinpot, fuggy, clapped out, ballup, balls-up, cockup,
mess-up, clanger, clawback, lucky dip, flit, rustication,
perambulation, fare-stage, pony-trekking, rugby, rugby football, rugger,
fives, bagatelle, bar billiards, tombola, ludo, shovel board,
shove-halfpenny, shove-ha'penny, piss-up, rag, hornpipe, panto,
doddle, minister, headship, costing, eleven-plus, 11-plus,
swiz, MOT, MOT test, Ministry of Transportation test, fire watching, snogging,
zizz, dekko, square-bashing, rub up, shufti, action replay,
point duty, supplementary benefit, social assistance, national assistance, car boot sale, boot sale,
invigilation, aggro, punch-up, go-slow, Battle of Britain, arterial road,
backbench, bar, ringway, bin liner, boot, bottle bank,
caff, carriageway, clearway, climbing frame, common room, countinghouse,
croft, crossbench, fascia, dickie, dickey-seat, dickie-seat,
dicky-seat, dixie, doorknob, doorhandle, Elastoplast, fairy light,
fish slice, fleapit, footplate, free house, front bench, fruit machine,
gamp, brolly, glebe house, greengrocery, gun room, Guy,
gymslip, hair slide, hall of residence, hard shoulder, highroad, trunk road,
home-farm, hosiery, hose, hypermarket, ironmongery, jobcentre,
lido, life office, lodge, L-plate, lumber room, macintosh,
mackintosh, mac, mack, meat safe, mews, milk float,
minicab, minicar, minster, mod con, nearside, nick,
overall, boilersuit, boilers suit, Oxbridge, panda car, pannikin,
pantechnicon, parka, windbreaker, windcheater, anorak, paternoster,
pelican crossing, pillar box, playbox, play-box, plimsoll, plughole,
point, power point, public house, pub, saloon, pothouse,
gin mill, taphouse, pull-in, pull-up, punnet, push-bike,
quarterlight, racing circuit, circuit, redbrick university, rowing boat, scullery,
secateurs, sheepwalk, sheeprun, shooting brake, skid lid, skidpan,
slip coach, slip carriage, slop basin, slop bowl, stall, stately home,
Sten gun, tramcar, surgery, tannoy, teashop, teahouse,
tearoom, tea parlor, tea parlour, terraced house, titfer, toilet bag,
sponge bag, tuck box, tuck shop, underfelt, van, verge,
villa, visual display unit, VDU, washbasin, handbasin, washbowl,
lavabo, wash-hand basin, wherry, Norfolk wherry, wincey, winceyette,
wooden spoon, workhouse, cert, beastliness, cobblers, conk,
countenance, physiognomy, phiz, visage, kisser, smiler,
mug, noddle, nous, facer, snorter, niff,
pong, wheeze, Thatcherism, Fabianism, gutter press, Rediffusion,
Magna Carta, Magna Charta, The Great Charter, royal charter, Higher National Diploma, HND,
class list, honours list, rota, whip-round, book token, indent,
colour supplement, bumf, bumph, double Dutch, gen, Highway Code,
Bachelor of Medicine, MB, honours, honours degree, first, first-class honours degree,
double first, storm cone, ticktack, shoulder flash, trad, skiffle,
argy-bargy, argle-bargle, green paper, plaint, prang, bunfight,
bun-fight, jolly, whist drive, Maundy, burnup, race meeting,
tuck, plain flour, whole wheat flour, graham flour, graham, whole meal flour,
Fanny Adams, high tea, tea, afternoon tea, teatime, nosh-up,
ploughman's lunch, hot pot, hotpot, castor sugar, caster sugar, pudding,
pud, tipsy cake, pease pudding, roly-poly, roly-poly pudding, suet pudding,
spotted dick, tart, Eccles cake, Christmas cake, simnel, teacake,
tea biscuit, cookie, cooky, biscuit, Victoria sandwich, Victoria sponge,
lemon curd, lemon cheese, chipolata, polony, banger, saveloy,
butty, hasty pudding, spring onion, whitefish, rock salmon, cattle cake,
salad cream, clotted cream, Devonshire cream, treacle, golden syrup, bubble and squeak,
cottage pie, kedgeree, bitter, pale ale, plonk, Rhine wine,
Rhenish, hock, sundowner, scrumpy, cuppa, cupper,
gob, al-Muhajiroun, National Trust, NT, Special Branch, Inland Revenue,
IR, Ordnance Survey, estate of the realm, estate, the three estates, first estate,
Lords Spiritual, second estate, Lords Temporal, third estate, Commons, admass,
limited company, Ltd., Ld., slate club, skiffle group, gaudy,
beanfeast, Liberal Democrat Party, direct-grant school, training college, Open University, privy council,
works council, parliament, conservancy, select committee, Central Intelligence Machinery, CIM,
Special Air Service, SAS, Secret Intelligence Service, MI, Military Intelligence Section 6, Security Service,
Military Intelligence Section 5, admiralty, county council, British Cabinet, shadow cabinet, High Commission,
public school, terrace, spinney, rave-up, local authority, heath,
heathland, subtopia, county, county town, shire town, housing estate,
stockbroker belt, shire, no-go area, pitch, new town, outport,
weald, Great Britain, GB, Home Counties, dale, mere,
Anglo-Saxon, backbencher, beadle, berk, boffin, chancellor,
Chief Constable, clever Dick, clever clogs, coiner, Colonel Blimp, Blimp,
commissionaire, constable, police constable, convener, crossbencher, Esquire,
Esq, fire watcher, frontbencher, fruiterer, greengrocer, guvnor,
home help, Hooray Henry, inquiry agent, intern, interne, houseman,
medical intern, invigilator, justiciar, justiciary, kerb crawler, Lady,
noblewoman, peeress, land agent, linendraper, lollipop lady, lollipop woman,
Lord Chancellor, Lord High Chancellor, mate, mercer, mod, muffin man,
nan, nark, copper's nark, newsreader, news reader, office-bearer,
outfitter, parliamentary agent, patrial, peer, peer of the realm, placeman,
placeseeker, pointsman, ponce, potboy, potman, preceptor,
don, publican, tavern keeper, question master, quizmaster, ranker,
ratepayer, recorder, redcap, remover, returning officer, rocker,
sandboy, scrimshanker, scrutineer, canvasser, settler, Sir,
sixth-former, skivvy, slavey, slopseller, slop-seller, smallholder,
sod, spiv, sprog, squire, stipendiary, stipendiary magistrate,
stockjobber, stone breaker, sublieutenant, suffragette, supergrass, grass,
supremo, tallyman, tearaway, Ted, Teddy boy, Thatcherite,
tout, ticket tout, townee, valuer, victualer, victualler,
wally, wog, Wykehamist, knock-on effect, medium wave, pot plant,
ratables, rateables, smallholding, Crown land, rent-rebate, peppercorn rent,
hire-purchase, never-never, sick benefit, sickness benefit, Christmas box, council tax,
rates, poor rates, base rate, refresher, water-rate, assurance,
giro account, current account, giro cheque, tenpence, threepence, sixpence,
tanner, Maundy money, divvy, carry-over, carry-forward, Premium Bond,
Civil List, last, quarter, inch, in, perch,
rod, pole, stone, bugger all, fuck all, sweet Fanny Adams,
milliard, one million million, 1000000000000, one million million million, quadrillion, top-up,
poverty trap, crick, kink, rick, wrick, dog's breakfast,
dog's dinner, appro, hard cheese, fug, ratability, rateability,
town gas, derv, clunch, surgical spirit, half-term, vac,
November 5, Guy Fawkes Day, sell-by date, quarter day, guest night, rag week,
rag day, Boxing Day, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday, Poppy Day, speech day,
year dot, kip, question time, judder, shake, scrimshank
• Instance Hypernyms:
kingdom
• Hyponyms:
Blighty
• Member Holonyms:
European Union, EU, European Community, EC, European Economic Community,
EEC, Common Market, Europe, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO
• Part Holonyms:
British Isles
• Part Meronyms:
England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cymru, Cambria