England

  • 21England —    Estimated Gypsy population: 100,000, including Irish Travelers. Some 50,000 live in caravans. The census figures for January 2005 show about 6,500 caravans on official council sites, more than 5,000 on authorized private sites, and 3,500 on… …

    Historical dictionary of the Gypsies

  • 22England — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. England, Angleterre en anglais, peut faire référence à : Toponymie : England, une ville du Comté de Lonoke dans l Arkansas, Personnes :… …

    Wikipédia en Français

  • 23England — 1. Engelland ist der Weiber Paradeiss, der Knecht Fegfewer vnd der Pferde Hell. – Lehmann, II, 152, 89; Gruter, III, 30; Berckenmeyer, 89; Pistor., III, 81; Simrock, 2071; Reinsberg V, 21 u. 112. Nach einem englischen Sprichwort scheinen aber die …

    Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon

  • 24England — Ẹng|land; s: 1. Teil von Großbritannien. 2. (volkstüml.) Großbritannien. * * * Ẹngland   [nach den Angeln], Landesteil von Großbritannien und Nordirland, 130 423 km2, (1991) 48,2 Mio. Einwohner; Hauptstadt ist London.   England erstreckt sich… …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 25England — see England is the paradise of women, the hell of horses, and the purgatory of servants England’s difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity the cat, the rat, and Lovell the dog, rule all England under the hog what Manchester says today, the rest of… …

    Proverbs new dictionary

  • 26ENGLAND —    (27,000), the predominant partner of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, comprises along with Wales the southern, and by far the greater, portion of Great Britain, the largest of the European islands; it is separated from the… …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 27England — This is not quite so obvious a name as it may first appear. It is a national regional surname, but its origins are Germanic, deriving from the tribes of North Germany known as the Angles . These were the people who invaded the Eastern and… …

    Surnames reference

  • 28England — En|gland 1.) the largest country in Britain; population 49,138,831 (2001). The capital is London →↑Britain →United Kingdom 2.) ... for England BrE spoken a humorous way of saying that someone does a lot or too much of a particular activity ▪ You… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 29England — Britain, Great Britain, the British Isles, England, etc. 1. Use of these terms causes confusion. Great Britain refers to the largest island in the group, which is divided between England, Scotland, and Wales. Politically, it means these three… …

    Modern English usage

  • 30England — geographical name 1. (or Late Latin Anglia) country S Great Britain; a division of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland capital London area 50,333 square miles (130,362 square kilometers), population 46,161,000 2. England &… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary