Find the word definition

Crossword clues for anglian

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anglian

Anglian \An"gli*an\, a. Of or pertaining to the Angles. -- n. One of the Angles.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Anglian

"of the Angles," 1726; see Angle. The Old English word was Englisc, but as this came to be used in reference to the whole Germanic people of Britain, a new word was wanted to describe this one branch of them.

Wikipedia
Anglian

Anglian may refer to:

  • Anglian, meaning "of the Angles", a Germanic people who settled in Britain in the post-Roman period
  • Anglian, a group of dialects of Old English
  • Anglian automobile, an English tricar manufactured from 1905 to 1907
  • Anglian College London, a college of further and higher education in Woolwich, England
  • Anglian Combination, an English football league in Norfolk and northern Suffolk
  • Anglian Home Improvements, a British home improvement company
  • Anglian Sovereign, a large sea-going tugboat
  • Anglian stage, the name used in the British Isles for a middle Pleistocene glaciation
  • Anglian Tower, an Early Medieval tower on the city walls of York, England
  • Anglian Water, a water company that operates in the East of England
  • East Anglia, an area in the East of England
  • Royal Anglian Regiment, an infantry regiment of the British Army

Usage examples of "anglian".

This is just like the invasion of Italy in 553 by the Alamannic brethren, and is quite in keeping with the loosely compacted character of the Merovingian monarchy, in which it was copied by the Anglian and Saxon Kingdoms.

Tatum stepped outside the hospital and stood in the early morning Anglian mist frantically switching on all his phones and pagers.

The sturdy East Anglian, half prize-fighter, half missionary, was a particular favourite of his, and so was the garrulous Secretary of the Navy.

Now that Sir John Hawkwood hath gone with the East Anglian lads and the Nottingham woodmen into the service of the Marquis of Montferrat to fight against the Lord of Milan, there are but ten score of us left, yet I trust that I may be able to bring some back with me to fill the ranks of the White Company.

Nothing more or less than that I should be his second in the fight, because I was a fellow countryman, while to ask an East Anglian thane would he to make things harder yet for Goldberga.

The one woman, the East Anglian beauty with the sad face and the brilliant eyes, rose and made her courtesy in the new style of the Franks.

There is an amazing correlation with the fourteen rivers near the East Anglian plain.

She saw Saxonbury, over two hundred miles away to the north, pinned between the great encampments of the East Anglian and Northumbrian Danes.

One morning, the rains were suddenly vanished, the blue and wide East Anglian skies were back, and Gregory saddled up Daisy and rode .

In any case any modern East Anglian characteristics would be anachronistic, since they did not then exist –.

Baker came from Bungay, in Suffolk, and had the East Anglian quietness that could be mistaken for slyness.

He was-and could prove he was-James Duncan Ross, who was moving from the West Country to take over the East Anglian representation of a Swiss-based corporation marketing computer software.

He had set out at night, immediately after seeing the flooded east behind him, and had been picked up by a couple in a Bentley, come from Letchworth in the East Anglian Heights.

These were apt to find utterance after his attendance upon the ministrations of the vicar, an estimable man with inclinations toward a picturesque ritual, which he gallantly kept down as far as he could out of deference to East Anglian tradition.

A copper dome midships, men clustered round it, two sweating at handles which they worked up and down like a suction-pump in the East Anglian fields.