Synonyms for british empire
british empire

Princeton's WordNet

1. British Empirenoun

   a former empire consisting of Great Britain and all the territories under its control; reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I; it included the British Isles, British West Indies, Canada, British Guiana; British West Africa, British East Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand

   "the sun never sets on the British Empire"

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1. June Jordan:

   All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

2. Alex Azar:

   HHS has a $1.2 trillion budget. that means it’s bigger than the British Empire.

3. Steven Wright:

   They say the sun never sets over the British Empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.

4. Winston Churchill:

   I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

5. Thomas Jennings:

   Among the leading matters which would occupy the attention of the meeting, were several important documents lately received from Europe, expressive of the sentiments that a very considerable portion of the people of the British Empire entertained respecting the deplorable situation of the colored people in the United States.