Thesaurus:England

Thesaurus

England

English

Proper noun

Sense: the largest part of the United Kingdom

Synonyms

• Albion (archaic)
• Blighty (slang)
• England
• Land of Hope and Glory
• Limeyland
• Old Blighty (slang)
• Old Dart (slang)
• perfidious Albion (pejorative)
• Pomgolia (Australian & NZ slang)

Meronyms

• Bedfordshire
• Berkshire
• Buckinghamshire
• Cambridgeshire
• Cheshire
• City of London
• Cornwall
• County Durham
• Cumberland
• Cumbria
• Derbyshire
• Devon
• Dorset
• Essex
• Gloucestershire
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Hampshire
• Herefordshire
• Hertfordshire
• Huntingdonshire
• Kent
• Lancashire
• Leicestershire
• Lincolnshire
• Merseyside
• Middlesex
• Norfolk
• Northamptonshire
• Northumberland
• Nottinghamshire
• Oxfordshire
• Rutland
• Shropshire
• Somerset
• Staffordshire
• Suffolk
• Surrey
• Sussex
• Tyne and Wear
• Warwickshire
• West Midlands
• Westmorland
• Wiltshire
• Worcestershire
• Yorkshire
•   —
• East Anglia
• Midlands
• West Country
• Wales (archaic)
•   —
• East Anglia
• Essex
• Kent
• Mercia
• Northumbria
• Sussex
• Wessex

Holonyms

• Europe    [⇒ thesaurus]
• Great Britain    [⇒ thesaurus]
• United Kingdom    [⇒ thesaurus]

Demonyms

• English
• Englishman
• Englishwoman
•   —
• Bristolian
• Brummie (slang)
• Cornish
• Cornishman
• Cornishwoman
• Cumbrian
• East Anglian
• Geordie (slang)
• Lancastrian
• Liverpudlian
• Loiner
• Londoner
• Mancunian
• Northumbrian
• Novocastrian
• Scouser (slang)
• Yorkshireman
• Yorkshirewoman

Further reading

• “England” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “England” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.