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Definition: BRITANNIA |
BRITANNIANoun1. A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware. Called also Britannia metal. |
Date "BRITANNIA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1784. (references) |
Etymology: Britannia \Bri*tan"ni*a\, noun. [From Latin Britannia Great Britain.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Britannia The first known representation of Britannia as a female figure sitting on a globe, leaning with one arm on a shield, and grasping a spear in the other hand, is on a Roman coin of Antoninus Pius, who died A.D. 161. The figure reappeared on our copper coin in the reign of Charles II., 1665, and the model was Miss Stewart, afterwards created Duchess of Richmond. The engraver was Philip Roetier, 1665. In 1825 W. Wyon made a new design. "The King's new medall, where, in little, there is Mrs. Stewart's face, ... and a pretty thing it is, that he should choose her face to represent Britannia by,"- Pepys' Diary (25 Feb.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Classical Romans referred to the island of Britain and to the various administrative provinces they set up there using the name Britannia. (See Roman Britain.)
Britannia is also the name of a charter airline company that flies out of London, Liverpool and Manchester to many sunspots worldwide. It uses Boeing 757 and 767 planes to transport its passengers.
Britannia can refer to the Royal Yacht Britannia.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Britannia."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher; tinsel; paste, junk jewelry, costume jewelry, false jewelry, synthetic jewels; scagliola, ormolu, German silver, albata, paktong, white metal, Britannia metal, paint; veneer; jerry building; man of straw. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BRITANNIA |
| English words defined with "BRITANNIA": Britannia metal ♦ Queen's metal ♦ Tubular bridge ♦ White metal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BRITANNIA": Britannia cell ♦ Castle of Bungay ♦ Dus ♦ Heads or Tails ♦ Mulready Envelope ♦ National Anthems ♦ southwestern cell. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "BRITANNIA": Britannic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BRITANNIA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Finnish (Britain), German (Britannia). |
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Screenplays | I'm going to sit in the car and whistle Rule Britannia. (Get Carter; writing credit: Ted Lewis; Mike Hodges) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Men Against Britannia (1957) Britannia Mews (1949) Hail Britannia! (1897) Jethro: Rule Britannia (2001) Rule Britannia! (1975) | |
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 | Britannia between Death and Doctor's, : Death may decide, when Doctor's disagree. / J. Gillray inv. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Doctors Cuchillo & Sangrado Prescribing for Britannia. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | America triumphant and Britannia in distress. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ferryboat Britannia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | British cutter Britannia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Str. Britannia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Launch of the Str. Britannia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Britannia, stern quarter before the launch. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Steamer Britannia, Detroit, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Side by side - Britannia! Britain's Day Dec. 7th 1918 / James Montgomery Flagg 1918 ; American Lithographic Co. N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "BRITANNIA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.06% of the time. "BRITANNIA" is used about 155 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 98.06% | 152 | 25,494 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.94% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 155 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Greece | Micromedia Britannia SA | India | Britannia Industries Limited |
| United Kingdom | Britannia Group plc | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "BRITANNIA": Britannia metal. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "BRITANNIA": britannia-bodied. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "BRITANNIA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Britani E Madhe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Британската Империя. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Británie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Britannien (Britain, Great Britain), Britannia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Nagy-britannia (Britain, Great Britain, great britain or england for short). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ブランド商" (bleach, bleachers, blizzard, brand items, brand new, breathing, bridge, brief, briefcase, brioche, Brisbane, tin plate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ブリタニア . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itanniabray Grã-bretanha (Britain, England, Great Britain, great dane). (various references) 'еликобритания (Britain, Great Britain). (various references) britanija (britain). (various references) Britania. (various references) Britanya. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"BRITANNIA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bhiwani, Boitani, Bratinka, Bretagna, Britania, britannians, Britannias, britannis, Britannnica, Britanny, Britknit, Brittanias, Brittannia, Brittenham, Eridania. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "BRITANNIA" (pronounced 'Bri*tan"ni*a'): Acrania, Adansonia, AEgicrania, Ammonia, Anglomania, Anthomania, Arachnida, Arnica, Bibliomania, Bignonia, Caledonia, Campania, Catamenia, Cavicornia, Chelonia, Cleptomania, Dalmania, Daphnia, Darlingtonia, Gallomania, gardenia, hemicrania, hernia, Houstonia, insignia, insomnia, kleptomania, Lamellicornia, Lawsonia, Longicornia, Mahonia, mania, Marsdenia, megalomania, Metromania, monomania, Musicomania, Musomania, Naenia, Nenia, Neomenia, nymphomania, OEnomania, Oinomania, Oxyammonia, Paulownia, Petunia, Phyllomania, Planipennia, Pleuropneumonia. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-i-i-n-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: antiarin. | |
-2 letters: antiair. | |
-3 letters: antiar, banian. | |
-4 letters: antra, atria, bairn, binit, brain, brant, naira, rabat, ratan, riant, riata, tiara, tibia, train. | |
-5 letters: abri, airn, airt, anna, anta, anti, aria, bait, bani, barn, bint, bran, brat, brin, brit, inia, inti, naan, nana, raia, rain, rani, rant, tain, tarn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-i-i-n-n-r-t" | |
+3 letters: antiabortion, labyrinthian, urbanisation, urbanization. | |
+4 letters: antisubmarine, carbonization, outbargaining, urbanisations, urbanizations. | |
+5 letters: carbonizations, tintinnabulary. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 52 49 54 41 4E 4E 49 41 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-. .. - .- -. -. .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010010 01001001 01010100 01000001 01001110 01001110 01001001 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B R I T A N N I A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0052 0049 0054 0041 004E 004E 0049 0041 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)365243543548484335 |
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Bulgaars, Bulgaar, bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, Búlgaru, български, български език, българин, Bulgaryan, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarskt, bulgarialainen, Bulgaarsk, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bullgar, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, Bułgar, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri, for Bulgarian; Tsjeggies, Tsjeg, çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, Checu, чешки, Sekoslovakyano, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tjekkiskt, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tsjechysk, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체", Sheckagh, Sheckish, Czech, chèc, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc, for Czech; Duits, Duitser, Duitse taal, Germaan, gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, المانية, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, роден, германски, немски език, немски, немец, готически, германец, 德語 , 德语, 德文 , 德國 , nìmecký, nìmec, tysker, Duitse, týskur, týskt, týskari, saksalainen, Allemand, Dútsk, Deutsche, Deutsch, "ερμανός, gjermanisht, 'רמ י, 'רמ ית, német, þjóðverji, þýskur, GearmÚnach, GearmÚinis, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, todesch, Germaanagh, Garmane, Germaanish, Carmane, aleman, Niemiec, niemiecki, alemão, alemand, neamţ, немецкий, Siamani, germanski, alemán, Tudesku, Doysri, mjeremani, mdachi, sí-Jalimáne, tysk, เยอรมัน, าษาเยอรมัน, Alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr, isiJalimane, iliJalimane, iJalimane, for German; 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Turks, turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, Turcu, турски, турски език, Turko, 土耳其, 土耳其語 , tureètina, turecký, turkist, turkkilainen, turque, turc, Turksk, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türk, türkçe, турецька мова, турецький, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ, for Turkish; |
