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East Anglia

American  

noun

  1. an early English kingdom in SE Britain: modern Norfolk and Suffolk.


East Anglia British  

noun

  1. a region of E England south of the Wash: consists of Norfolk and Suffolk, and parts of Essex and Cambridgeshire

  2. an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk in the 6th century ad ; became a dependency of Mercia in the 8th century

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Other Word Forms

  • East Anglian adjective

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On Monday night the clearer skies are likely across East Anglia and south-east England ahead of a band of cloud moving in from the west.

From BBC

Nina holds degrees in English literature from the University of East Anglia and the University of Glasgow.

From The Wall Street Journal

However, more than 230 flood alerts are scattered across much of England apart from the far north and East Anglia.

From BBC

East Anglia has some of the fastest eroding coastlines in north-western Europe.

From BBC

The research was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and led by scientists from the Francis Crick Institute, Stockholm University, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of East Anglia.

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