the British Empirenoun
uk/ˌbrɪt.ɪʃ ˈem.paɪər//ˌbrɪt.ɪʃ ˈem.paɪr/the group of countries that in the past were ruled or controlled by the U.K., including Australia, Canada, India, and many parts of Africa
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Colonisation & self-government
- annex
- autonomous
- autonomy
- client state
- colonial
- crown colony
- decolonization
- dependency
- devolution
- devolve
- independence
- Independence Day
- nationalism
- nationalist
- neocolonialism
- self-government
- self-rule
- separatism
- separatist
- the free world
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Examples from literature
- Like most empires, the British Empire did bad things and good things.
- The British Empire was the biggest in the history of the world.
- The British Empire asks peace and security.
- The British Empire differs from any other nation or empire which has ever existed.
- The British Empire is a successful experiment on the lines of the longed-for League of Nations.
- The dominions of the British Empire abolished long ago the privileges which birth confers.
- There is in the British Empire to-day no bar to success which resolution cannot break.