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Great Britain Definition

Great Britain

  1. principal island of the United Kingdom, including England, Scotland, & Wales, & administratively including adjacent islands except the Isle of Man & the Channel Islands

  2. popularly the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Great Britain Synonyms

Great Britain

n.

Britain, British Isles, United Kingdom, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland; see also England.

Great Britain Quotes

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

—Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon

Just foraword'neutrality'öaword which inwartimehas so often been disregardedöjust for a scrap of paper Great Britain isgoing to make war on a kindred nation who desires nothing better than to be friends with her.

—Bethmann Hollweg,Theobald von

On the platform stood a policeman of normal proportions, and instead of a revolver and a truncheon he carried a copy of Ben Hur translated into Irish, which he was evidently studying for an examination important to his professional advancement. MrThewless realised that the imperial might of Great Britain lay behind him and that in front was the philosophic republic of Mr de Valera.

—Stewart,John Innes Mackintosh

†the Metropolis of Great-Britain, founded before the City of Rome, walled by Constantine the Great, no ways inferior to the greatest in Europe for Riches and Greatness.

—Bailey, Nathan   d.1742

It is a superstition of an antiquated diplomacy that there is any necessaryantagonism between Russia and Great Britain. 202

—of Salisbury