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’.