💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "British america"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| english overseas possessions | The English overseas possessions comprised a variety of overseas territories that were colonised, conquered, or otherwise acquired by the Kingdom of England before 1707. |
| british empirenoun | (chiefly historical) The United Kingdom and its overseas dependencies and colonies. |
| british north americanoun | (historical) The collective colonies of the British Empire in North America. |
| dominion of new england | The Dominion of New England in America was a short-lived administrative union of English colonies covering all of New England and the Mid-Atlantic Colonies, with the exception of the Delaware Colony and the Province of Pennsylvania. |
| southern colonies | The Southern Colonies within British America consisted of the Province of Maryland, the Colony of Virginia, the Province of Carolina (in 1712 split into North and South Carolina), and the Province of Georgia. |
| kingdom of englandnoun | A kingdom in western Europe, from the early 900s until the foundation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain on 1 May 1707. |
| colony of jamaica | The Crown Colony of Jamaica and Dependencies was a British colony from 1655, when it was captured by the English Protectorate from the Spanish Empire. |
| new francenoun | (historical) A group of former French colonies in North America, existing from 1534 to 1763 in much of modern eastern Canada and the United States. |
| province of canadanoun | (historical) A British colony in British North America from 1841 to 1867. |
| province of maryland | an English and later British colony in North America from 1634 until 1776, when the province was one of the Thirteen Colonies that joined in supporting the American Revolution against Great Britain. |
| british indianoun | The rule of India by the British East India Company from 1757 to 1858. |
| new england colonies | The New England Colonies of British America included Connecticut Colony, the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, and the Province of New Hampshire, as well as a few smaller short-lived colonies. |
| province of carolina | a province of the Kingdom of England and later the Kingdom of Great Britain that existed in North America and the Caribbean from 1663 until the Carolinas were partitioned into North and South in 1712. |
| anglo-americanoun | A region in the Americas in which English is a main language, including for example the United States and Canada. |
| french colonial empirenoun | (historical) France and its colonies from the sixteenth century forward. It ended when French colonies became independent after World War II. |
| colonial empirenoun | (historical, geopolitics) A collective of territories that are either contiguous with the imperial center or located overseas, and settled by the population of a certain state and governed by that state. |
| canadanoun | A country in North America. Capital: Ottawa. Largest city: Toronto. |
| dutch empire | — |
| roman empirenoun | (historical) An ancient empire based out of Rome, which succeeded the Roman Republic and existed between 27 B.C.E. and 476 C.E. in the west (and until 1453 C.E. in the east; see Byzantine Empire), encompassing vast territories in Europe, Asia and Africa, stretching from Britain and Germany to Spain, North Africa and the Persian Gulf. |
| portuguese empirenoun | (historical) A colonial empire that existed from 1415 to 1999. |
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