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 英国，英格兰（第一次和第二次世界大战期间英国士兵用语，现含诙谐意味） Word Originfirst used by soldiers in the Indian army; Anglo-Indian alteration of Urdu bilāyatī, wilāyatī ‘foreign, European’, from Arabic wilāyat, wilāya ‘dominion, district’.