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U.K.

U.K. is the abbreviation of United Kingdom.

Meaning of United Kingdom

Proper noun

the United Kingdom

  1. A kingdom and country in Northern Europe, comprising the four countries of England, Scotland and Wales on the island of Great Britain, and Northern Ireland on the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland since 1922.
    • Some have also called for the speaker of the parliament, Anita Annet Among, to resign. She was among high-profile Ugandan politicians sanctioned by the United States and the United Kingdom for corruption earlier this year.2024 July 22, Nimi Princewill, “Uganda’s President Museveni warns citizens they are ‘playing with fire’ over planned protests”, in CNN
  2. (historical) The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922).
  3. (historical, informal, nonstandard) The Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1801).
  4. (name) A kingdom consisting of several constituencies, either actual, historical, or hypothetical.
    • the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves

Questions about U.K.

What is U.K. the abbreviation of?
U.K. is the abbreviation of United Kingdom.

Words near U.K. in the dictionary

  1. U. S. S. R.
  2. U. S. V. I.
  3. U. S. Virgin Islands
  4. U. States
  5. U.A.E.
  6. U.K.
  7. U.N.
  8. U.N.I.C.E.F.
  9. U.P.
  10. U.P. Campus
  11. U.P. Village

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Adapted from Wiktionary: U.K. (page history and authors); United Kingdom (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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