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Anonymous users2024-02-06The English word in the UK is britain, and the specific meaning is as follows:
Pronunciation: br t( )n
Meaning: United Kingdom, Great Britain (including England, Scotland and Wales); United Kingdom, Great Britain (including England, Scotland and Wales).
Part of speech: Usually used as a noun in a sentence, as a subject or object.
Example sentences
1、fruit was a luxury in wartime britain.
In wartime Britain, fruit was a luxury.
2、the school is the first of its kind in britain.
It was the first school of its kind in the UK.
3、these cattle are one of the purest breeds in britain.
These cattle are one of the purest breeds in the UK.
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Anonymous users2024-02-05English word: british, British word: kingdom meaning:
Great Britain) United Kingdom. English means: English, British.
British means British.
Key words: 1. Britain
English [ br tn] American [ br tn]nBritish, British.
2、united kingdom
n.Great Britain) United Kingdom.
United Kingdom Overview: The United Kingdom is a Western European island nation consisting of England, Wales and Scotland on the island of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, as well as a series of dependent islands. In addition to the mainland, it also has 14 overseas territories with a total population of more than 66 million, of which the English (Anglo-Saxons) are the main ethnic group, accounting for the total population of the country.
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Anonymous users2024-02-04English is the main language spoken in the UK. Other official languages: Welsh, Gaelic. The immigrants' home languages such as Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu.
Originally the national language of England, English gradually spread to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as England's political and economic power expanded, becoming the official language of these regions. All the educated and residents of the three regions who live in large and medium-sized cities can speak a relatively standard English.
English is the lingua franca of the United Kingdom and an international language. It is the official language of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and one of the official languages of Ireland. English plays an important role in many of the countries and regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America that were once occupied by the British Empire, whether or not they are still part of the British Commonwealth.
In international interactions, English is also mostly used.
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Anonymous users2024-02-03From B.C. until the Norman conquest of England by the French in 1066 A.D., several ethnic groups settled on the island.
Iberians: I don't know how to come to the island. Mediterranean ethnicity.
Celtic: The first Gaelic people were Scotland. The ancestors of the Irish, using the Gaelic language. The second group were Celtic Britons, the ancestors of the Welsh. Britain thus became the main part of the name of the United Kingdom.
Romans: Came to the island in the 1st century BC. Brought the Latin alphabet.
Germans: Germanic Angles in the middle of the 5th century AD.
The Saxons and others invaded England. The Angles were the more powerful, calling the island "Angle-Land", from which the word England derives.
The Anglo-Saxon language is also the ancestor of modern English. The original Britons were driven to Wales and the south of England. Today's Welsh is the language of Britain.
English --- used by 95% of the British population.
Welsh --- used by 20% of Welsh.
scottish
Gaelic --- used by 1% of Scots (about 60,000 people).
Irishgalic --- used by 7% of Northern Irish (110,000) and 2% of Scots (30,000).
Cornish --- used by the population of Cornwall (3500 people).
british
signlanguage --- less than the number of people in the whole of the UK.
St Paul's Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, Westminster Abbey.
Because the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, there is a king (or queen), and the son of the king (or queen) is a prince. The Prince of Wales is the Prince of Wales (a special title for the heir to the British throne), and the current Prince of Wales is Prince Charles, who has two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry.
The concept of British statehood is a very broad concept, the first aborigines to settle in Britain are the Celts, that is, the main ethnic group of today's Scotland, after Caesar conquered Britain, the Romans once ruled England, soon after the Romans withdrew, the Nordic Germanic peoples from Scandinavia, the Anglos, Saxons and Jutes invaded, settled, and gradually integrated, initially forming an Anglo-Saxon dominated England pattern. In 1066, the Normans from France (Frenchized Nordic Vikings) conquered England under the leadership of Duke William the Conqueror, and the English nation was further integrated, in the 12th century, Richard the Lionheart began to use the St. George's Cross flag, which is today's England flag, the long-legged Edward ** Wales in the 12th century, England merged with Scotland in the early 17th century, the United Kingdom of Great Britain appeared, the England cross flag merged with the Scottish Andrew flag, and the rice flag appeared, which basically laid the pattern of modern Britain, In 1800, the United Kingdom annexed Ireland, and in 1801, the rice flag joined the flag of the Irish ruler of the Fetznod family, which is the British flag we see today, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was formally established in the same year, so it is difficult to say when the United Kingdom was founded, not only the concept of nation-building is divided into a broad and narrow sense, but the concept of Britain also has a narrow sense of England and a broad sense of the United Kingdom, and the United Kingdom still does not have a unified founding standard and national holiday (instead of the birthday of the king or queen). If we have to count the date of the founding of the United Kingdom, it can only be counted as the official establishment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1801.
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