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(historical) Alternative form of AUC, the era of the Roman historians now usually reckoned from 753 bc. [(historical) According to the Roman era, which reckons the number of years passed from the foundation of the city of Rome by Romulus, now usually taken as 753 bc.]
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Initialism of American Civil War. [A war fought in the United States between 1861 and 1865, between the Northern states (Union) and Southern states (Confederacy).]
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In the United States of America, of the period prior to the American Civil War, especially in reference to the culture of the southern states.
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Any non-specific, non-notable town in the USA.
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(historical) According to the Roman era, which reckons the number of years passed from the foundation of the city of Rome by Romulus, now usually taken as 753 bc.
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(by extension) The Union in general.
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Abbreviation of Brexit Party. [(UK politics) A British single-issue trans-European political party of the European Parliament dedicated to extracting Great Britain from the European Union]
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Battle of Bunker Hill (1775), in the American Revolution
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A city that is a seat of government.
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(metonymically) the United States Congress
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The speaker of Dáil Éireann
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(US, historical) A member of the Continental army.
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(chiefly Australia and New Zealand) Of, by or pertaining to a coroner.
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(US, slang) The Confederate States of America.
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(US) Initialism of Confederate States of America. [(historical) An unrecognized nation existing from 1861-1865, consisting of the eleven Southern states who sought independence from the United States of America over the issue of slavery.]
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Christian Union (bodies of Christian students in UK schools, colleges and universities)
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An exchange student taking part in an Erasmus Programme
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an economic union between the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan
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(law) Abbreviation of Greenland. [A large self-governing dependent territory of Denmark, in North America.]
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The building in Berlin that houses the Bundestag of modern Germany
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The legal system applied in most of Western Europe until the end of the 18th century.
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(historical) Counter-intelligence organisation attached to Russian army units during World War II.
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(US) Those states which formed the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
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A professor with the highest academic title at Yale University.
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students' union (UK spelling)
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the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland
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(colloquial, chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) University.
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(US, with determiner, dated, especially 19th century) The United States of America.
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(often capitalised) Support for the continuance of the United Kingdom (especially with respect to Northern Ireland).
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A walled city in Ancient Rome.
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