Great Britain
noun
1 Great Britain
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.
synonyms: Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
is a broader term that covers: Blighty.
is an instance of: kingdom.
has as a part: England | Northern Ireland | Scotland | Cambria, Cymru, Wales.
is a part of: British Isles.
is a member of: Common Market, EC, EEC, EU, Europe, European Community, European Economic Community, European Union | NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
domain member region: balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up | clanger | clawback | lucky dip | flit | rustication | perambulation | fare-stage | pony-trekking | rugby, rugby football, rugger | fives | bagatelle, bar billiards | tombola | ludo | shove-ha'penny, shove-halfpenny, shovel board | lucky dip | piss-up | rag | hornpipe | panto | doddle | minister | headship | costing | 11-plus, eleven-plus | swiz | Ministry of Transportation test, MOT, MOT test | fire watching | snogging | zizz | dekko | square-bashing | rub up | shufti | lie-in | point duty | national assistance, social assistance, supplementary benefit | boot sale, car boot sale | invigilation | aggro | punch-up | go-slow | Battle of Britain | arterial road | backbench | bar | betting shop | bin liner | bottle bank | caff | carriageway | clearway | climbing frame | common room | countinghouse | croft | crossbench | delf | dickey, dickey-seat, dickie, dickie-seat, dicky, dicky-seat | dixie | doorhandle, doorknob | Elastoplast | fairy light | fish slice | fleapit | footplate | free house | front bench | fruit machine | brolly, gamp | glebe house | greengrocery | greengrocery | gun room | Guy | gymslip | hair slide | hall of residence | hard shoulder | highroad, trunk road | home-farm | hose, hosiery | hypermarket | ironmongery | jobcentre | lido | life office | lodge | L-plate | lumber room | mac, macintosh, mack, mackintosh | meat safe | mews | milk float | minicab | minicar | minster | mod con | nearside | nick | boilers suit, boilersuit, overall | Oxbridge | panda car | pannikin | pantechnicon | anorak, parka, windbreaker, windcheater | paternoster | pelican crossing | pillar box | play-box, playbox | plimsoll | plughole | point, power point | gin mill, pothouse, pub, public house, saloon, taphouse | pull-in, pull-up | punnet | push-bike | quarterlight | circuit, racing circuit | redbrick university | rowing boat | scullery | secateurs | sheeprun, sheepwalk | shooting brake | skid lid | skidpan | slip carriage, slip coach | slop basin, slop bowl | stall | stately home | Sten gun | strongroom | surgery | tannoy | tea parlor, tea parlour, teahouse, tearoom, teashop | terraced house | titfer | sponge bag, toilet bag | tuck box | tuck shop | underfelt | van | verge | villa | VDU, visual display unit | handbasin, lavabo, wash-hand basin, washbasin, washbowl | Norfolk wherry, wherry | wincey | winceyette | wooden spoon | workhouse | cert | beastliness | cobblers | conk | countenance, kisser, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler, visage | 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 | cobblers | 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 | argle-bargle, argy-bargy | green paper | plaint | prang | bun-fight, bunfight | jolly | whist drive | Maundy | burnup | race meeting | zizz | tuck | plain flour | graham, graham flour, whole meal flour, whole wheat flour | Fanny Adams | high tea | afternoon tea, tea, teatime | nosh-up | ploughman's lunch | hot pot, hotpot | caster sugar, castor sugar | pud, pudding | tipsy cake | pease pudding | roly-poly, roly-poly pudding | suet pudding | spotted dick | tart | Eccles cake | Christmas cake | simnel | tea biscuit, teacake | biscuit, cookie, cooky | Victoria sandwich, Victoria sponge | lemon cheese, lemon curd | chipolata | polony | banger | saveloy | butty | hasty pudding | Victoria plum | whitefish | rock salmon | cattle cake | salad cream | clotted cream, Devonshire cream | golden syrup, treacle | bubble and squeak | cottage pie | kedgeree | bitter | pale ale | plonk | hock, Rhenish, Rhine wine | sundowner | scrumpy | cuppa, cupper | gob | al-Muhajiroun | National Trust, NT | Special Branch | Inland Revenue, IR | Ordnance Survey | estate, estate of the realm, the three estates | first estate, Lords Spiritual | Lords Temporal, second estate | Commons, third estate | admass | Ld., limited company, Ltd. | 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 | SAS, Special Air Service | MI, Military Intelligence Section 6, Secret Intelligence Service | MI, Military Intelligence Section 5, Security Service | 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 | GB, Great Britain | Home Counties | dale | mere | Anglo-Saxon | backbencher | beadle | berk | boffin | chancellor | Chief Constable | clever clogs, clever Dick | coiner | Blimp, Colonel Blimp | commissionaire | constable, police constable | convener | crossbencher | Esq, Esquire | fire watcher | frontbencher | fruiterer | greengrocer | guvnor | home help | Hooray Henry | inquiry agent | houseman, intern, interne, 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 | copper's nark, nark | news reader, newsreader | office-bearer | outfitter | parliamentary agent | patrial | peer | peer of the realm | placeman, placeseeker | pointsman | pork butcher | potboy, potman | don, preceptor | publican, tavern keeper | question master, quizmaster | ranker | ranker | ratepayer | recorder | redcap | remover | returning officer | rocker | sandboy | scrimshanker | canvasser, scrutineer | settler | Sir | sixth-former | skivvy, slavey | slop-seller, slopseller | smallholder | spiv | sprog | sprog | squire | stipendiary, stipendiary magistrate | stockjobber | stone breaker | sublieutenant | suffragette | grass, supergrass | supremo | tallyman | tearaway | Ted, Teddy boy | Thatcherite | ticket tout, 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 | giro, giro cheque | tenpence | threepence | sixpence, tanner | Maundy money | divvy | carry-forward, carry-over | Premium Bond | Civil List | last | quarter | in, inch | perch, pole, rod | tod | stone | bugger all, Fanny Adams, fuck all, sweet Fanny Adams | milliard | 1000000000000, billion, one million million | one million million million, trillion | 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 | November 5 | Guy Fawkes Day | sell-by date | quarter day | guest night | rag, rag week | rag day | Boxing Day | Poppy Day, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday | speech day | year dot | kip | question time | judder, shake | scrimshank | potted | fly | pawky | dinky | dishy | non-U | u | starkers | boss-eyed | canty | garden | groovy, swagger | gammy | all-mains | niffy | swingeing | shirty, snorty | po-faced | peckish | dickey, dicky | potty | whacking | ex-directory | long-dated | short-dated | take-away, takeout | 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 | drained, knackered | whacked | manky | tinpot | fuggy | clapped out | action replay, instant replay, replay | beltway, bypass, ring road, ringway | bullpen, detention cell, detention centre | call center, call centre | center, centre | center bit, centre bit | centerboard, centreboard, drop keel, sliding keel | centerpiece, centrepiece | baking tray, cookie sheet | dashboard, fascia | automobile trunk, boot, luggage compartment, trunk | meterstick, metrestick | pedestrian crossing, zebra crossing | center, mall, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall | sandbox, sandpile, sandpit | Kotex, sanitary napkin, sanitary towel | signal box, signal tower | streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car | jumper, sweater | meter, metre, time | dead center, dead centre | center of curvature, centre of curvature | center, centre, nerve center, nerve centre | center, center of attention, centre, centre of attention | remit | centerpiece, centrepiece | metacenter, metacentre | center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum | center spread, centre spread | centerfold, centrefold | center, centre | groundnut oil, peanut oil | veg, vegetable, veggie | chips, french-fried potatoes, french fries, fries | green onion, scallion, spring onion | identity parade, lineup, police lineup | center, centre | nerve center, nerve centre | center, centre, midpoint | center of buoyancy, center of immersion, centre of buoyancy, centre of immersion | center of gravity, centre of gravity | center of flotation, centre of flotation | center of mass, centre of mass | center, centre, eye, heart, middle | center stage, centre stage | central city, city center, city centre | storm center, storm centre | epicenter, epicentre | gran, grandma, grandmother, grannie, granny, nan, nanna | bozo, cat, guy, hombre, sod | ponce | clerk, salesclerk, shop assistant, shop clerk | checking account, chequing account, current account | centare, square meter, square metre | cubic millimeter, cubic millimetre | cc, cubic centimeter, cubic centimetre, mil, milliliter, millilitre, ml | cubic decimeter, cubic decimetre, l, liter, litre | cubic meter, cubic metre, kiloliter, kilolitre | cubic kilometer, cubic kilometre | femtometer, femtometre, fermi | micromicron, picometer, picometre | micromillimeter, micromillimetre, millimicron, nanometer, nanometre, nm | millimeter, millimetre, mm | centimeter, centimetre, cm | decimeter, decimetre, dm | m, meter, metre | dam, decameter, decametre, dekameter, dekametre, dkm | hectometer, hectometre, hm | kilometer, kilometre, klick, km | mym, myriameter, myriametre | figure 8, figure eight, figure of eight | center stage, centre stage | storm center, storm centre | vac, vacay | bit, minute, mo, moment, second | kilometers per hour, kilometres per hour, km/h, kph | center, centre, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet | concenter, concentre, focalise, focalize, focus | center, centre | carry the can, face the music | egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred | chilly, parky | human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanistic, humanitarian | excellent, fantabulous, first-class, ripping, splendid ... show more.
derivation: Britannic.
Dutch: V.K., Britannië, Groot-Brittannië, Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Polish: Anglia, Korona Brytyjska, Wielka Brytania, Zjednoczone Królestwo Wielkiej Brytanii i Irlandii Północnej
2 Great Britain
An island comprising England and Scotland and Wales.
synonym: GB.
is an instance of: island.
instances of which are: Albion.
has as a part: Scotland | Solway Firth.
is a part of: British Isles.
has as a member: Brit, Britisher, Briton.
domain region: Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Dutch: Groot-Brittannië
Polish: Wielka Brytania
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