EAST ANGLIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does East Anglia mean? 

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

1. a region of eastern England that was formerly a kingdom

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EAST ANGLIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A region of eastern England that was formerly a kingdom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("East Anglia" is a part of...):

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)