1. Home
  2. Dictionary
  3. Northumbria

Definition of Northumbria in English :

Define Northumbria in English

Northumbria meaning in English

Meaning of Northumbria in English

Pronunciation of Northumbria in English

Northumbria pronunciation in English

Pronounce Northumbria in English

Northumbria

see synonyms of northumbria

Noun

1. northumbria

an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in northern England until 876

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Northumbria

see synonyms of northumbria
noun
1. 
(in Anglo-Saxon Britain) a region that stretched from the Humber to the Firth of Forth: formed in the 7th century ad, it became an important intellectual centre; a separate kingdom until 876 ad
2. 
an area of NE England roughly corresponding to the Anglo-Saxon region of Northumbria

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Northumbria

see synonyms of northumbria
former Anglo-Saxon kingdom in Great Britain, south of the Firth of Forth

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Northumbria

see synonyms of northumbria
An Anglian kingdom of northern England formed in the seventh century by the union of Bernicia and Deira. Much of Northumbria fell to invading Danes in the ninth century and was annexed to Wessex in 954.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

WORD OF THE DAY

ennead

FIND OUT WHAT IT MEANS

Recent Searches