English-Portuguese translations for british empire

• Império Britânico
  Senhor Presidente, um dos muitos presentes que o Império Britânico deu ao mundo foi a abolição global da escravatura. Mr President, one of the many gifts the British Empire gave to the world was the global abolition of slavery.
  Claro que cabe aos Irlandeses tomarem a sua decisão; no entanto, pensando bem, os seus antepassados expulsaram o poderoso Império Britânico. It is, of course, for them to take their own decision, but these are, after all, people whose fathers saw off the might of the British Empire.
  Quem pensar que podem existir ainda o império britânico ou as potências francesas e alemãs, vive numa doce ilusão. Whoever thinks that the British Empire or the French and German powers can still exist is living under a vain illusion.

Definition of british empire

• The United Kingdom and its dependencies. It became the Commonwealth of Nations following the independence of most of its dependencies

Examples

• The British Empire was the largest empire in history at its climax, during the late 1800s/early 1900s.

Related words

• British
• Britishness
• Britisher
• Britishize
• anti-British
• Franco-British
• pro-British
• British Isles
• British Commonwealth of Nations
• British English