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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Britannia \Bri*tan"ni*a\, n. [From L. Britannia Great Britain.] A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware. Called also Britannia metal.
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Britannia was the Greek and Roman term for the geographical region of Great Britain which was inhabited by the Britons and is the name given to the female personification of the island. It is a term still used to refer to the island today. The name is Latin, and derives from the Greek form Prettanike or Brettaniai, which originally designated a collection of islands with individual names, including Albion or Great Britain; however, by the 1st century BC, Britannia came to be used for Great Britain specifically. In AD 43 the Roman Empire began its conquest of the island, establishing a province they called Britannia, which came to encompass the parts of the island south of Caledonia (roughly Scotland). The native Celtic inhabitants of the province are known as the Britons. In the 2nd century, Roman Britannia came to be personified as a goddess, armed with a trident and shield and wearing a Corinthian helmet.
The Latin name Britannia long survived the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century, and yielded the name for the island in most European and various other languages, including the English Britain and the modern Welsh Prydain. After centuries of declining use, the Latin form was revived during the English Renaissance as a rhetorical evocation of a British national identity. Especially following the Acts of Union in 1707, which joined the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, the personification of the martial Britannia was used as an emblem of British imperial power and unity. She was featured on all modern British coinage series until the redesign in 2008, and still appears annually on the gold and silver " Britannia" bullion coin series. In 2015 a new definitive £2 coin was issued, with a new image of Britannia.
Britannia coins are British bullion coins issued by the Royal Mint in gold since 1987 and in silver since 1997.
Britannia gold coins contain one troy ounce of gold and have a face value of £100. Gold Britannias also are issued in fractional sizes of one-half, one-quarter, and one-tenth of a troy ounce and with face values of £50, £25, and £10 respectively. In 2013 two additional sizes were introduced, a five-ounce coin of face value £500, and a fractional size of one-twentieth of face value £5.
Britannia silver coins contain one troy ounce of silver and have a face value of £2. Silver Britannias also are issued in fractional sizes of one-half, one-quarter, and one-tenth of a troy ounce and with face values of £1, 50 p, and 20p respectively. Like the gold coins in 2013 two additional sizes were introduced, a five-ounce coin of face value £10, and a fractional size of one-twentieth of face value 10p.
Britannia is the Latin name for the island of Great Britain, later used for the female personification of the United Kingdom.
Britannia may also refer to:
Britannia is a former mutual building society which merged with The Co-operative Banking Group in 2009. It is now a trading name of the Co-operative Bank in the United Kingdom. Britannia was headquartered in Leek, Staffordshire, and was the second largest building society in the UK based on total assets of £36.8 billion at 31 December 2007. It became an important provider of both mortgages (including subprime mortgages through its Platform Home Loans subsidiary) and savings, as well as commercial lending.
Britannia was legally dissolved as a separate organisation on 1 August 2009 and merged into Co-operative Financial Services, to become a trading name of The Co-operative Bank. In January 2013, the Co-operative announced that the brand would be phased out by the end of 2013, and began rebranding branches under the Co-operative Bank name. However, the Co-operative Bank's own financial crisis resulted in the original plans being abandoned. Instead many Britannia branches were closed, and only a small number were retained and rebranded.
The Britannia was a British 4-wheeled cyclecar made in 1913 and 1914 by Britannia Engineering Co. Ltd based in Nottingham.
The car was powered by an air-cooled, two-cylinder, two-stroke engine driving the rear wheels by a four-speed gearbox and belts. It cost GBP85.
Britannia, published in 2015 is the fourteenth volume of the Eagle Series by Simon Scarrow.
right|thumb|200px|Box Art for Britannia Second Edition
Britannia is a strategy board game, first released and published in 1986 by Gibsons Games in the United Kingdom, and most recently updated in late 2008 as a re-release of the 2005 edition, produced by Fantasy Flight Games. It broadly depicts the wars in, and migrations to, the island of Great Britain in the centuries from the Roman invasions to the Norman Conquest.
Britannia was selected among the anthology Hobby Games: The 100 Best and is ranked by members of the Board Game Geek site in the top 350 of over 10,000 ranked games. Britannia has spawned a subgenre of wargames characterized by epic time scales with players taking the part of multiple tribes or nations over the course of the game.
Britannia may refer to a number of sailing ships:
- Britannia, a 770-ton (Builder's Old Measurement, bm) merchantman launched at Bombay in 1772 that made 13 voyages for the British East India Company before wrecking off Brazil in 1807.
- Britannia (1774 ship), a 500-ton (bm) merchantman built in 1774 that made five voyages for the British East India Company, on one of which she transported convicts to Australia in a voyage noted for the death toll due to the captain's brutality
- Britannia (1783 whaler), a 301-ton (bm) whaler built in 1783 and wrecked in 1806 off the coast of Australia
- Britannia, a 384-ton (bm) merchantman that made two voyages for the British East India Company before a French privateer captured her in 1798 and recaptured her shortly thereafter. She then became a West Indiaman; last listed 1804.
- Britannia, a 1,273-ton (bm) merchantman wrecked off Goodwin Sands in 1809.
- Britannia (1829), a 411-ton (bm) ship-rigged merchantman.
- Britannia, a 270-ton (bm) brig that sank off Australia in 1839.
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(1840), a pioneering transatlantic paddle steamer, the first in a class of Cunard Lines ships.
- MV Britannia (1983), a tourboat based in Coal Harbour, Vancouver
Usage examples of "britannia".
Britannia and Jake were getting into their car when Beyke swam into the hall, a filmy wrap over her dress.
Britishborn bairns lisping prayers to the Sacred Infant, youthful scholars grappling with their pensums or model young ladies playing on the pianoforte or anon all with fervour reciting the family rosary round the crackling Yulelog while in the boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what times the strains of the organtoned melodeon Britannia metalbound with four acting stops and twelvefold bellows, a sacrifice, greatest bargain ever .
Augusta spoke to friends and introduced Janney as a friend visiting from the west of Britannia, the cover story they had decided on to explain away any questions.
Britannia flashed, emitting now a scream of peculiarly patterned interference which was not only a scrambler of all un-Lensed communication throughout that whole part of the galaxy, but also an imperative call for any mauler within range.
Her old friendship with Tambo dates from those days when she used to serve him tea at Britannia Court and somehow produce enough food to go round whomever Whaila brought home.
The year he became Augustus, Carausius, the Menapian admiral they had appointed to defend Britannia from Saxon raiders, had been charged with misappropriating the spoils.
Roman communications, the pinnace which rowed back and forth between Portus Itius and Britannia with a dozen kegs of nails going out and messages going in.
What she has done for Franklin and so many others, she will do to-day for these poor shipwrecked fellows of the BRITANNIA.
It was evident that the degrees given related to the place where the BRITANNIA was actually shipwrecked and not the place of captivity, and that the bottle therefore had been thrown into the sea on the western coast of the continent.
Scotchman like yourself, my Lord, and one of the shipwrecked crew of the BRITANNIA.
When the survivors of the shipwrecked BRITANNIA took refuge there, the hand of man began to organize the efforts of nature.
Paganel had persisted in making it the root of the verb ABORDER, and it turned out to be a proper name, the French name of the Isle Tabor, the isle which had been a refuge for the shipwrecked sailors of the BRITANNIA.
Their search had not been fruitless, for they were bringing back the survivors of the shipwrecked BRITANNIA.
After that, our forces had been fully engaged with incursions of Franks and Alamanni in the east, and slave rebellions in the west of Gallia, with no time to worry about Britannia.
Britannia had been conquered by foot-slogging legionaries, heavy infantry that crushed every attack the frantic Celts could throw at them.