Little Englandn.

Brit.

/ˌlɪtl ˈɪŋɡlənd/, U.S.

/ˌlɪd(ə)l ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lənd/

Forms: also with lower-case initial in the first element.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: little adj., proper name England.

Etymology: < little adj. + the name of England (see England n.).In quot. 1577 at sense 1a apparently ultimately as an alteration of the place name Lothingland (formerly also Lovingland ); compare Low England , an alternative name for the same place, showing folk-etymological alteration after low adj. and the name of England.

a. (A name given to) a place considered to resemble or epitomize England on a small scale; a ‘colony’ or microcosm of England; a foreign place full of English people.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [noun] > microcosm or colony of England

Little England1577

England1660

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. viii. f. 18^v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Litle England or low Englande [i.e. Lothingland, Suffolk]..is about 8. miles in length and foure in bredth, very well replenished with townes.., and beside this it is very fruitfull and indued with all commodities.

1704 J. Swift Let. 3 Feb. in Corr. (1963) I. 41 I allow indeed the chamber in William-Street to be Little England by their influence.

?1764 J. Bush Hibernia Curiosa 40 Their town [i.e. Lurgan, Ireland], which, from the similarity of its general figure, of the language, manners, and dispositions of its inhabitants to those of the English, had for many years acquired the name of Little England.

1802 C. Wilmot Irish Peer on Continent (1920) 77 At present Paris is become a little England, 5000 is the calculation this last week.

1841 Q. Rev. 68 337 We smile at an Englishman's travelling apparatus, contrived for carrying with him a little England wherever he moves.

1902 Eastern Counties Mag. 2 339 Before the great drainage scheme came on it [sc. Wicken Fen] was surrounded by sea, marsh, and river on every side, and quite a separate little England.

1906 H. Belloc Hills & Sea 241 It [sc. the Valley of the Rother] is, in a few miles, a little England.

1938 C. H. Garrett Marian Exiles Pref. p. vii In the years from 1553 to 1559..the ‘frontiers of England lay upon the Rhine’. There a ‘little England’ had established itself.

1968 R. M. Polhemus Changing World A. Trollope iii. 35 Barsetshire becomes a little England.

2005 M. Leonard Why Europe will run 21st Cent. i. 23 Many of the British cling to their roots by recreating a little England.

b. spec. An area of south-west Wales, comprising parts of Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, which has a long tradition of being English-speaking. More fully Little England beyond Wales.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Wales > [noun]

Little England beyond Wales1586

1586 W. Camden Brit. 373 Hæc eorum regiuncula [sc. Pembrokeshire] à Britannis Anglia Transwallina nuncupetur. [margin] Little England beyond Wales.

a1613 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) xxvii. 256 This Countrey, amonge other of Wales hath ben famouse for theire love, loyalltie and service to the kinges of this Realme, and soe affected of the Kinges and people of England for the same, that they haue termed it a second or little England.

1699 S. Dunstar Anglia Rediviva 95 Haverford, situate in the Demy Island of this County, by the Welsh called Ross, by the English, Little England beyond Wales.

1759 Plain Disquis. fortifying Milford-Haven i. 31 To the West of Milford-Haven lies that part of the Country called Little England beyond Wales.

1812 European Mag. & London Rev. Apr. 251/1 They [sc. descendants of Flemish weavers] speak English; and are so similar, in general, to the inhabitants of this kingdom, that the district which they inhabit has been frequently termed, Little England beyond Wales.

1888 E. Laws Hist. Little Eng. beyond Wales iii. 34 The English-speaking inhabitants of Pembrokeshire have for generations called their home ‘Little England beyond Wales’.

1925 Observer 31 May 9/4 Pembrokeshire, the county which some call ‘Little England beyond Wales’.

2003 R. Else et al. Britain (ed. 5) 747/2 Pembrokeshire's..south coast..is also known as ‘Little England’. Many guesthouses are run by incomers (and more than 50 castles here were built by the Anglo-Norman invaders).

c. The island of Barbados in the Caribbean, which became a British colony in the 1630s and remained British until 1966.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > West Indies > [noun] > Barbados

Little England1794

Bimshire1843

Bim1923

1794 European Mag. Oct. 284/2 At the other Islands it [sc. Barbadoes] often goes by the name of Little England.

1814 W. Dixon Let. in Mitigation of Slavery ii. 345 The majority of these [Proprietors] are Absentees, except in Barbadoes, (sometimes called, from its superior improvement, ‘Little England’).

1890 J. S. Farmer Slang I. 199/1 The island of Barbadoes..is also sometimes jeeringly called Little England.

1953 G. Lamming In Castle of my Skin ii. 25 Barbados or Little England as it was called in the local school texts.

2005 Independent (Nexis) 8 Jan. A cable from the distant colony of Barbados..signed by Premier Grantley Adams, ended pluckily: ‘Go on England; Little England is behind you.’

2. Chiefly depreciative. The inward-looking England supposedly advocated by Little Englanders.Earliest in attributive use.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [noun]

Merry Englanda1400

rosec1460

south1641

perfidious Albion1798

perfide Albion1840

Mother of Parliaments1865

Little England1872

Blighty1900

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > territory governed by a ruler or state > England perceived as insular state

Little England1872

1872 Times 6 Nov. 9/5 He [sc. Sir Edward Watkin] had never belonged to the Little England party, and it was quite time to consider whether a bolder and more independent policy would not be of advantage to the vital interests of commerce.

1878 Era 4 Aug. 9/4 The voice of the country appears to be in favour of a ‘Great England,’ as opposed to a ‘Little England.’

1879 Campaigning Papers First Princ. Politics No. 2. 20 The Jingo advocates of a policy of domineering..discovered that Mr. Gladstone and his followers who deprecated the unnecessary and dangerous enlargement of our responsibilities wanted a ‘Little England’.

1920 W. L. George Caliban ii. ix. 157 I'll give 'em music-halls. And plenty of Empire on the cheap, with no taxes to pay for an army and navy. I'll give 'em Little England.

1963 J. Mander (title) Great Britain or Little England?

2010 A. Rana Two Faces Amer. Freedom i. 73 An intractable bind facing colonial administrators after Canadian annexation, one foreseen by the critics of expansion and defenders of ‘little England’.

Compounds

General attributive (in sense 2), as Little England man, Little England party, etc.

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1872Little England party [see sense 2].

1895 J. Chamberlain Speech at Walsall 15 July in Times 16 July 10/2 Men who..were ‘Little England’ men, who took every opportunity of..criticizing those brave Englishmen who have made for us homes across the sea.

1901 Spectator 20 July 78/2 Another party composed of two groups, the Little England Liberals and the Irish Home-rulers.

1940 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. 26 660/2 ‘Little England’ people..who insisted that England could and should remain ‘isolated’ from the rest of the world.

1966 B. Trend in D. Gowland & A. Turner Brit. & European Integration 1945–98 (2000) vi. 117 The growing tendency for individual countries to group themselves in larger aggregates of economic power implies that merely to go on as we are would mean adopting a ‘Little England’ policy.

2010 P. L. Pham Ending ‘East of Suez’ vii. 225 [Harold] Wilson's political base on the Left insisted that the upcoming austerity package include cuts to defence; certain members of the Cabinet had ‘little England’ views.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	little england
释义	Little Englandn. Brit. /ˌlɪtl ˈɪŋɡlənd/, U.S. /ˌlɪd(ə)l ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lənd/ Forms: also with lower-case initial in the first element. Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: little adj., proper name England. Etymology: < little adj. + the name of England (see England n.).In quot. 1577 at sense 1a apparently ultimately as an alteration of the place name Lothingland (formerly also Lovingland ); compare Low England , an alternative name for the same place, showing folk-etymological alteration after low adj. and the name of England. 1. a. (A name given to) a place considered to resemble or epitomize England on a small scale; a ‘colony’ or microcosm of England; a foreign place full of English people. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [noun] > microcosm or colony of England Little England1577 England1660 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. viii. f. 18^v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Litle England or low Englande [i.e. Lothingland, Suffolk]..is about 8. miles in length and foure in bredth, very well replenished with townes.., and beside this it is very fruitfull and indued with all commodities. 1704 J. Swift Let. 3 Feb. in Corr. (1963) I. 41 I allow indeed the chamber in William-Street to be Little England by their influence. ?1764 J. Bush Hibernia Curiosa 40 Their town [i.e. Lurgan, Ireland], which, from the similarity of its general figure, of the language, manners, and dispositions of its inhabitants to those of the English, had for many years acquired the name of Little England. 1802 C. Wilmot Irish Peer on Continent (1920) 77 At present Paris is become a little England, 5000 is the calculation this last week. 1841 Q. Rev. 68 337 We smile at an Englishman's travelling apparatus, contrived for carrying with him a little England wherever he moves. 1902 Eastern Counties Mag. 2 339 Before the great drainage scheme came on it [sc. Wicken Fen] was surrounded by sea, marsh, and river on every side, and quite a separate little England. 1906 H. Belloc Hills & Sea 241 It [sc. the Valley of the Rother] is, in a few miles, a little England. 1938 C. H. Garrett Marian Exiles Pref. p. vii In the years from 1553 to 1559..the ‘frontiers of England lay upon the Rhine’. There a ‘little England’ had established itself. 1968 R. M. Polhemus Changing World A. Trollope iii. 35 Barsetshire becomes a little England. 2005 M. Leonard Why Europe will run 21st Cent. i. 23 Many of the British cling to their roots by recreating a little England. b. spec. An area of south-west Wales, comprising parts of Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, which has a long tradition of being English-speaking. More fully Little England beyond Wales. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Wales > [noun] Little England beyond Wales1586 1586 W. Camden Brit. 373 Hæc eorum regiuncula [sc. Pembrokeshire] à Britannis Anglia Transwallina nuncupetur. [margin] Little England beyond Wales. a1613 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) xxvii. 256 This Countrey, amonge other of Wales hath ben famouse for theire love, loyalltie and service to the kinges of this Realme, and soe affected of the Kinges and people of England for the same, that they haue termed it a second or little England. 1699 S. Dunstar Anglia Rediviva 95 Haverford, situate in the Demy Island of this County, by the Welsh called Ross, by the English, Little England beyond Wales. 1759 Plain Disquis. fortifying Milford-Haven i. 31 To the West of Milford-Haven lies that part of the Country called Little England beyond Wales. 1812 European Mag. & London Rev. Apr. 251/1 They [sc. descendants of Flemish weavers] speak English; and are so similar, in general, to the inhabitants of this kingdom, that the district which they inhabit has been frequently termed, Little England beyond Wales. 1888 E. Laws Hist. Little Eng. beyond Wales iii. 34 The English-speaking inhabitants of Pembrokeshire have for generations called their home ‘Little England beyond Wales’. 1925 Observer 31 May 9/4 Pembrokeshire, the county which some call ‘Little England beyond Wales’. 2003 R. Else et al. Britain (ed. 5) 747/2 Pembrokeshire's..south coast..is also known as ‘Little England’. Many guesthouses are run by incomers (and more than 50 castles here were built by the Anglo-Norman invaders). c. The island of Barbados in the Caribbean, which became a British colony in the 1630s and remained British until 1966. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > West Indies > [noun] > Barbados Little England1794 Bimshire1843 Bim1923 1794 European Mag. Oct. 284/2 At the other Islands it [sc. Barbadoes] often goes by the name of Little England. 1814 W. Dixon Let. in Mitigation of Slavery ii. 345 The majority of these [Proprietors] are Absentees, except in Barbadoes, (sometimes called, from its superior improvement, ‘Little England’). 1890 J. S. Farmer Slang I. 199/1 The island of Barbadoes..is also sometimes jeeringly called Little England. 1953 G. Lamming In Castle of my Skin ii. 25 Barbados or Little England as it was called in the local school texts. 2005 Independent (Nexis) 8 Jan. A cable from the distant colony of Barbados..signed by Premier Grantley Adams, ended pluckily: ‘Go on England; Little England is behind you.’ 2. Chiefly depreciative. The inward-looking England supposedly advocated by Little Englanders.Earliest in attributive use. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [noun] Merry Englanda1400 rosec1460 south1641 perfidious Albion1798 perfide Albion1840 Mother of Parliaments1865 Little England1872 Blighty1900 society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > territory governed by a ruler or state > England perceived as insular state Little England1872 1872 Times 6 Nov. 9/5 He [sc. Sir Edward Watkin] had never belonged to the Little England party, and it was quite time to consider whether a bolder and more independent policy would not be of advantage to the vital interests of commerce. 1878 Era 4 Aug. 9/4 The voice of the country appears to be in favour of a ‘Great England,’ as opposed to a ‘Little England.’ 1879 Campaigning Papers First Princ. Politics No. 2. 20 The Jingo advocates of a policy of domineering..discovered that Mr. Gladstone and his followers who deprecated the unnecessary and dangerous enlargement of our responsibilities wanted a ‘Little England’. 1920 W. L. George Caliban ii. ix. 157 I'll give 'em music-halls. And plenty of Empire on the cheap, with no taxes to pay for an army and navy. I'll give 'em Little England. 1963 J. Mander (title) Great Britain or Little England? 2010 A. Rana Two Faces Amer. Freedom i. 73 An intractable bind facing colonial administrators after Canadian annexation, one foreseen by the critics of expansion and defenders of ‘little England’. Compounds General attributive (in sense 2), as Little England man, Little England party, etc. ΚΠ 1872Little England party [see sense 2]. 1895 J. Chamberlain Speech at Walsall 15 July in Times 16 July 10/2 Men who..were ‘Little England’ men, who took every opportunity of..criticizing those brave Englishmen who have made for us homes across the sea. 1901 Spectator 20 July 78/2 Another party composed of two groups, the Little England Liberals and the Irish Home-rulers. 1940 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. 26 660/2 ‘Little England’ people..who insisted that England could and should remain ‘isolated’ from the rest of the world. 1966 B. Trend in D. Gowland & A. Turner Brit. & European Integration 1945–98 (2000) vi. 117 The growing tendency for individual countries to group themselves in larger aggregates of economic power implies that merely to go on as we are would mean adopting a ‘Little England’ policy. 2010 P. L. Pham Ending ‘East of Suez’ vii. 225 [Harold] Wilson's political base on the Left insisted that the upcoming austerity package include cuts to defence; certain members of the Cabinet had ‘little England’ views. 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