United Kingdom

Examples

• All

• German companies were most prepared, while United Kingdom firms were least prepared.

  Academic text (1999)

• Open University in the United Kingdom is the largest university in the world.

  Academic text (1999)

• What is real is that the United Kingdom has big problems with development.

  Philosophy Tube

• What would your vision for a United Kingdom be or a Great Britain?

• I include the United States, the United Kingdom and France.

• Well, Ukraine will not yield and the United Kingdom will never walk away.

  10 Downing Street

• We are very fortunate to have an incredible intelligence services in the United Kingdom and American intelligence.

• The United Kingdom has lost control of its arsenal.

  Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)

• Five states had tested nuclear weapons: the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France, and China.

  Academic text (1999)

• And both the United States and United Kingdom face the same sociological dilemma.

Synonyms

B

Britain

vsUnited Kingdom

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

includes the separate northern region as part of the full country

U

UK

vsUnited Kingdom

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A country in north-west Europe made of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

is the full spelled out name rather than the abbreviation

U

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

vsUnited Kingdom

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

is the shorter common name used in everyday speech

U

U.K.

vsUnited Kingdom

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

is the abbreviation written without punctuation in modern use

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