Britannia

Meanings

1. A female personification of Britain or the United Kingdom.
2. A province of the Roman Empire, covering most of the island of Britain.
3. A number of places in Canada:
4. A neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta.
5. A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.
6. A community in Lake of Bays township, Muskoka district municipality, Ontario.
7. A group of neighbourhoods in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario.
8. A former village in Mississauga, Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario.
9. A rural municipality in western Saskatchewan; in full, the Rural Municipality of Britannia No. 502.
10. A southern suburb of Bacup, Rossendale borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD8821).
11. A suburb in Cymmer community, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0390).
12. Ellipsis of Britannia metal (“a silvery alloy of tin with copper and antimony, somewhat like pewter”).

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Britannia. Doublet of Britain and Brittany.