United Kingdom

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• UK, U.K. (initialism)

From united +‎ kingdom, first attested from 1706.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /juːˌnaɪ.tɪd ˈkɪŋ.dəm/, /jʊˌnaɪ.tɪd ˈkɪŋ.dəm/, /jəˌnaɪ.tɪd ˈkɪŋ.dəm/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋdəm
• Hyphenation: U‧nit‧ed King‧dom

the United Kingdom

2. 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.
   • 2024 July 22, Nimi Princewill, “Uganda’s President Museveni warns citizens they are ‘playing with fire’ over planned protests”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     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 November 25, Sean Lyngaas, “Starbucks forced to pay its baristas manually because of a ransomware attack on third-party software”, in CNN Business‎^[2]:

     Cybersecurity firm Semperis found that 86% of surveyed organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany that faced ransomware attacks were targeted on a holiday or weekend.

4. (historical) The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922).
6. (historical, informal, nonstandard) The Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1801).
7. (nation's name) A kingdom consisting of several constituencies, either actual, historical, or hypothetical.

   the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves

   the United Kingdom of Sweden and Norway

• (Sense 1): United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (official name), Great Britain (loosely), Britain (loosely), England (non-standard; sometimes offensive).
• (Sense 3): Great Britain (official name), Kingdom of Great Britain (modern use)

• → Amharic: ዩናይትድ ኪንግደም (yunaytəd kingədäm)
• → Bhojpuri: यूनाइटेड किंगडम (yūnāiṭēḍ kiṅgᵊḍam)
• → Burmese: ယူနိုက်တက်ကင်းဒမ်း (yunuiktakkang:dam:)
• → Gujarati: યુનાઇટેડ કિંગડમ (yunāiṭeḍ kiṅgḍam)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: यूनाइटेड किंगडम (yūnāiṭeḍ kiṅgḍam)
  • Urdu: یُونائِٹِڈ کِن٘گْڈَم (yūnāiṭiḍ kiṅgḍam)
• → Kannada: ಯುನೈಟೆಡ್ ಕಿಂಗ್‌ಡಂ (yunaiṭeḍ kiṅg‌ḍaṃ)
• → Konkani: युनायटेड किंगडम (yunāyṭeḍ kiṅgḍam)
• → Malayalam: യുണൈറ്റഡ് കിങ്ഡം (yuṇaiṟṟaḍŭ kiṅḍaṁ)
• → Manipuri: ꯌꯨꯅꯥꯢꯇꯦꯗ ꯀꯤꯡꯗꯝ (yunāiteda kingdam)
• → Marathi: युनायटेड किंग्डम (yunāyṭeḍ kiṅgḍam)
• → Telugu: యునైటెడ్ కింగ్‌డమ్ (yunaiṭeḍ kiṅg‌ḍam)

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