A region in northwestern France. / (obsolete, chiefly poetic) The British Isles. / A female given name transferred from the place name, of 1980s and 1990s American usage. / (prison slang) Coward

A person from the British Virgin Islands or of descent of the British Virgin Islands.

(geography) A group of islands off the north-west coast of mainland Europe and separated from it by the English Channel and the North Sea, including Great Britain, Ireland, Anglesey, the Isle of Man, the Isle of Wight, the Hebrides, the Shetland Islands, the Orkney Islands, the Isles of Scilly, the Channel Islands, and many smaller islands.

An invented language created by Andrew Smith in 1996, based on the premise of Latin being influenced by Old Celtic.

The island (and sometimes including some of the surrounding smaller islands) off the north-west coast of Europe made up of England, Scotland, and Wales. Abbreviation: GB.

(historical) A series of air engagements between the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the German Luftwaffe during World War II for air superiority over southern England and the English Channel prior to any German invasion of the British Isles.

The quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at a particular temperature (there are several different precise definitions) and a pressure of one atmosphere.

An alloy of tin with copper and antimony, somewhat like pewter.

(historical) A seventeenth-century joint-stock company founded to trade with India to Britain's advantage.

Abbreviation of Encyclopædia Britannica: the oldest English-language general encyclopedia.