Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective British.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Great Britain: as, Her Britannic Majesty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
Britain ,Great Britain or theUnited Kingdom ;British
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of Britain
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Examples
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Britannic is her name, and she crossed this way in seven days and sixteen hours, and went home the last time in seven days and thirteen hours.
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Captain Britain , also briefly known as Britannic, was created by X-Men writer Chris Claremont and Incredible Hulk artist Herb Trimpe, the character first appeared in Captain Britain Weekly #1 October 13, 1976.
Archive 2008-02-01 Chuck Wells 2008
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_Richard_, known to us all by the household name of _Pink_, who in his after years tilted up and down what might then be called his Britannic majesty's oceans (viz., the Atlantic and Pacific) in the quality of midshipman, until Waterloo in one day put an extinguisher on that whole generation of midshipmen, by extinguishing all further call for their services; 7. a second _Jane_; 8.
Autobiographical Sketches Thomas De Quincey 1822
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The word "Britannic" antedates the occupation of India and the Declaration of Independence.
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Towards the end of that month the "Britannic," a hospital ship, was torpedoed.
Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington
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I set out in 1883 from Liverpool on board the "Britannic" with the fixed conviction that I should never, never return.
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We were taken off the "Britannic" in a tug, and Mr. Abbey, Lawrence Barrett, and many other friends met us -- including the much-dreaded reporters.
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"Britannic" (50,000 tons), the latter vessel seeming to almost fill the entrance to the harbour as she steamed slowly in.
The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Herbert Brayley Collett 1912
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Two days after the above I saw the "Britannic," the "Donau," the "Helvetia" and the "Schiedam" steam out, all off for Europe -- a magnificent sight.
Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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Two days after the above I saw the "Britannic," the "Donau," the "Helvetia" and the "Schiedam" steam out, all off for Europe -- a magnificent sight.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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