UK

Examples

• All

• Asthma is a common condition affecting 5.4 million people in the UK, 1.1 million of whom are children.

  Academic text (2011)

• We are going on tour around the UK doing our own DJ parties.

  WAFFLIN' Podcast

• It's the last city in the UK before Scotland.

  Chris Williamson

• We have come to the UK with one message.

• So if we do that for the UK, this is what happens.

• I want to come to the UK, so that would be good.

  Theo Von

• The UK has a special relationship with the US.

  Ali G Indahouse (2002)

• Do you think that taxes in the UK right now are fair?

  Rob Moore

• If you're in the UK, it's warm for us today.

  sophdoeslife

• About 150,000 people in the UK have a stroke each year, at a national cost of about 7bn.

  Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

U

United Kingdom

vsUK

74 1.0

A country in northwestern Europe made of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

is the abbreviated short form people use in informal contexts

U

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

vsUK

1 2.4

The official name of the country in northwest Europe made of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

is the short everyday abbreviation used instead of the formal name

U

U.K.

vsUK

1.0

A country in northwest Europe made of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

is the same abbreviation written without periods

Compounds

U

UK English

• UK

2.5

A form of English used in the United Kingdom with British spelling and pronunciation

Surface Forms

Etymology