# England

Pronunciation: say "ING-gluhnd" /ˈɪŋɡlənd/

## Proper noun

1. The largest and most populous country of the United Kingdom; also, the historical land of the English people in Britain.
   - Simple: A country that is part of the United Kingdom, or the land of the English people in earlier times.
   - _England shares a long land border with Scotland to the north._
   - _The capital of England, London, sits on the River Thames._

## Proper noun

2. A dated way of referring to Great Britain or the United Kingdom as a whole. *(dated)*
   - Simple: An older, loose way of saying Great Britain or the whole United Kingdom.
3. In archaic legal usage, a name for England and Wales considered together as a single jurisdiction. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: In old law, a short way of saying England and Wales together as one legal area.

## Other meanings

- (proper noun) A habitational surname of Old English origin, derived from the name of a place so called.
- (proper noun) A city located in Lonoke County, Arkansas, in the United States.

## Origin

England comes from Middle English Engelond, from Old English Engla land, literally "land of the Angles," formed from the genitive of Engle ("the Angles") plus land ("land").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/england (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).