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Word: Blighty
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
first used by soldiers in the Indian army; Anglo-Indian alteration of Urdu bilāyatī, wilāyatī ‘foreign, European’, from Arabic wilāyat, wilāya ‘dominion, district’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈblʌɪti
Dialects: British English
Definition:
an informal term for Britain or England, used by soldiers of the First and Second World Wars.
Short Definition:informal term for Britain or England
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