british empire
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The United Kingdom and its overseas dependencies and colonies.
Example Sentences
- "Violence and racism were the reality of the colonial experience and no wonder that the sun never set on the British Empire because even God couldn't trust the English in the dark."
- "Two hundred and forty years have passed since the 1781 Yorktown Campaign, a campaign that was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and forced the British Empire to reach concessions with the 13 Colonies."
- "In 1920, the British Empire covered over a quarter of the Earth's surface area."
Inflected Forms
the British Empire (canonical)