a name for Britain or England, used especially by soldiers in the First and Second World Wars, and now sometimes used in a humorous way 英國,英格蘭(第一次和第二次世界大戰期間英國士兵用語,現含诙諧意味) Word Originfirst used by soldiers in the Indian army; Anglo-Indian alteration of Urdu bilāyatī, wilāyatī ‘foreign, European’, from Arabic wilāyat, wilāya ‘dominion, district’.