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Pax Britannica

Pax Britannica proper noun: the period of British hegemony over the seas and most oversea colonies between the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and the onset of World War I in 1914.

Proper noun

Pax Britannica

  1. The period of British hegemony over the seas and most oversea colonies between the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and the onset of World War I in 1914.

Origin of Pax Britannica

Learned borrowing from New Latin Pax Britannica, from pāx (“peace”) + Britannica (“British”) after the model of the imperial Roman Pāx Rōmāna. Earliest recorded use is in 1871 in a work by the British jurist and historian Sir Henry James Sumner Maine.

Questions about Pax Britannica

What does Pax Britannica mean?
Pax Britannica means the period of British hegemony over the seas and most oversea colonies between the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and the onset of World War I in 1914.
What part of speech is Pax Britannica?
Pax Britannica is a proper noun.

Words near Pax Britannica in the dictionary

  1. pawty
  2. pawy
  3. pax
  4. Pax Americana
  5. Pax Augusta
  6. Pax Britannica
  7. Pax Judaica
  8. Pax Romana
  9. Pax Silica
  10. Pax Sinica
  11. paxamate

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