ANGLIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Anglia mean? 

• ANGLIA (noun)
  The noun ANGLIA has 1 sense:

1. the Latin name for England

  Familiarity information: ANGLIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGLIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Latin name for England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

We wanted to find out how these superbugs are spread — and whether there is a cross-over from the food chain to humans said lead author Professor David Livermore of the University of East Anglia's medical school.

(Wash your hands or else spread superbug E. coli, say scientists, Wikinews)

Yet there was much around to interest us, for we were passing through as singular a countryside as any in England, where a few scattered cottages represented the population of to-day, while on every hand enormous square-towered churches bristled up from the flat green landscape and told of the glory and prosperity of old East Anglia.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)