British Empire

English thumb|250px|An anachronous map of the British Empire. Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-British Empire.wav Southern England Proper noun British Empire 1 en chiefly _ historical The United Kingdom and its overseas dependencies and colonies. en Commonwealth of Nations 2015, Shashi Tharoor, "Britain Does Owe Reparations", 00:05:16: Violence and racism were the reality of the colonial experience and no wonder that the empire on which the sun never sets the sun never set on the British Empire because even God couldn't trust the English in the dark. en 2021-2022 Winter Matthew R. Prescott; John P. Ruedisueli The Relevance of the 1781 Yorktown Campaign SAR Magazine Louisville, KY w:Sons of the American Revolution 116 3 0161-0511 1766001 20 1 Two hundred and forty years have passed since the 1781 Yorktown Campaign, a campaign that was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and forced the British Empire to reach concessions with the 13 Colonies. en In 1920, the British Empire covered over a quarter of the Earth's surface area. Usage notes The term British Empire was never used legally, although the British sovereigns from Victoria of England Victoria to George VI of England George VI styled themselves as empress and emperors of India from 1876 until its independence in 1947. Similarly, there is no fixed date for the end of the British Empire, although it is often dated to the 1956 Suez Crisis or the 1997 Handover of Hong Kong. As a separate ministry of the British government, the Colonial Office existed from 1768–1782 and again from 1801–1966, after which it was folded into the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Synonyms en Empire UK, dated Translations United Kingdom and its colonial empire(s) Albanian: sq Perandoria Britanike f definite Arabic: ar الإِمْبَرَاطُورِيّة الْبَرِيطَانِيَّة f al-ʔimbarāṭūriyya l-barīṭāniyya definite Armenian: hy Բրիտանական կայսրություն Azerbaijani: az Britaniya imperiyası Belarusian: be Брыта́нская імпе́рыя f, be Брыта́нская iмпэ́рыя f Bengali: bn ব্রিটিশ সাম্রাজ্য Bulgarian: bg Брита́нска импе́рия f Burmese: my ဗြိတိသျှအင်ပါယာ Chinese: Cantonese: yue 大英帝國 Mandarin: cmn 大英帝國 Dàyīng Dìguó Czech: cs Britská říše f, cs Britské impérium n Danish: da det Britiske imperium n definite, can be lower case Estonian: et Briti impeerium Finnish: fi Brittiläinen imperiumi French: fr Empire britannique m Galician: gl Imperio británico m Georgian: ka ბრიტანეთის იმპერია German: de Britisches Weltreich n Greek: el Βρετανική Αυτοκρατορία f Hebrew: he האימפריה הבריטית f ha-imperyá ha-brítit Hindi: hi ब्रिटिश साम्राज्य m Hungarian: hu Brit Birodalom Icelandic: is Breska heimsveldið n Indonesian: id Imperium Britania Raya Irish: ga Impireacht na Breataine f Italian: it Impero Britannico m Japanese: ja イギリス帝国 イギリスていこく, Igirisu teikoku, ja 大英帝国 だいえいていこく, Daieiteikoku Kazakh: kk Британ империясы Khmer: km ចក្រភពអង់គ្លេស Korean: ko ^대영제국(大英帝國) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kmr Împeratoriya Brîtanî Kyrgyz: ky Британ империясы Lao: lo ຈັກກະວັດອັງກິດ Latvian: lv Lielbritānijas impērija f Lithuanian: lt Britų imperija f Macedonian: mk Бри́танска импе́рија f Malay: ms Empayar British Maltese: mt Imperu Brittaniku Marathi: mr ब्रिटिश साम्राज्य n Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn Британийн эзэнт гүрэн Norwegian: Bokmål: nb det Britiske imperiet n definite, can be lower case Pashto: ps د بريتانيا امپراتوري f də britāniyā amparāturi Persian: Iranian Persian: fa-ira اِمْپِراتوریِ بِریتانِیا Polish: pl Imperium Brytyjskie n Portuguese: pt Império Britânico m Romanian: ro Imperiul Britanic n definite Russian: ru Брита́нская импе́рия f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Брита́нско Ца̑рство n Latin: sh Británsko Cȃrstvo n Sinhalese: si බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය අධිරාජ්‍යය Slovak: sk Britské impérium n, sk Britská ríša f Slovene: sl Britanski imperij m Spanish: es Imperio Británico m Swedish: sv Brittiska imperiet n definite Tagalog: tl Imperyong Britaniko Tajik: tg Империяи Бритониё Tamil: ta பிரித்தானியப் பேரரசு Tatar: tt Британия империясе Thai: th จักรวรรดิบริติช, th จักรวรรดิอังกฤษ Turkish: tr Britanya İmparatorluğu Turkmen: tk Britan imperiýasy Ukrainian: uk Брита́нська імпе́рія f Urdu: ur سَلْطَنَت بَرْطَانِیَہ f Uyghur: ug برىتانىيە ئىمپېرىيەسى Uzbek: uz Britaniya imperiyasi Vietnamese: vi Đế quốc Anh (vi 帝國英) Welsh: cy Ymerodraeth Brydeinig f Yiddish: yi בריטישע אימפּעריע f en Colonialism History of the United Kingdom