Definition of Iceni in English:
Iceni
plural noun ʌɪˈsiːnʌɪʌɪˈsiːni
A tribe of ancient Britons inhabiting an area of south-eastern England in present-day Norfolk and Suffolk. Their queen, Boudicca, led an unsuccessful rebellion against the Romans in AD 60.
Example sentencesExamples
- Mothers ready to defend their children to the death are a common stereotype, while any notion that women are Stepford soldiers, caring and compliant, was challenged way before Boudicca headed the Iceni.
- Another Romanized town attacked by Boudicca and the Iceni was Verulamium.
- Boadicea was an earlier British queen, who led the Celtic Iceni in a two-year uprising against the imperial Roman army after her daughters were raped and she herself was flogged by soldiers.
- He was the ruler of a British tribe called the Iceni, who had extensive territories in what is today East Anglia.
- Boudicca was the queen of the Iceni, a Celtic tribe in Norfolk and Suffolk in eastern Britain.