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Englands

Englands is the plural of England.

Meaning of England

Proper noun

England (usually uncountable, plural Englands)

  1. (usually) The largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom; established in southern Britain by Aethelstan of Wessex in 927.
    • Holonyms: Great Britain, Britain < United Kingdom, UK < Earth, World
  2. (historical, usually) The territory of the Angles and (later) Anglo-Saxons in Britain at any given time before the founding of the Kingdom of England, or the territory of the English people at any given time, in either the Kingdom of England or the United Kingdom.
  3. (archaic, historical, usually) Synonym of England and Wales.
  4. (dated, proscribed, sometimes, usually) Synonym of Great Britain or United Kingdom.
    • England expects that every man will do his duty.
    Synonyms:
    Great Britain or United Kingdom
  5. (usually) A habitational surname from Old English.
  6. (usually) A city in Lonoke County, Arkansas, United States.

Questions about Englands

What is Englands the plural of?
Englands is the plural of England.

Words near Englands in the dictionary

  1. England & Wales
  2. England and Wales
  3. Englande
  4. Englander
  5. Englanders
  6. Englands
  7. engle
  8. Englebert
  9. Engleberts
  10. Englee
  11. Englefield

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Englands (page history and authors); England (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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