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Blighty

noun

Definition of Blighty

chiefly British

as in country

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Recent Examples of Blighty The scene plays out like a Blighty version of A Few Good Men, with Dalton in the Tom Cruise role, deftly provoking Livingston into a confession. — Jack King, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2025 According to The Associated Press, more than 29,000 people have hit the shores of Blighty this year on small boats, after over 46,000 last year. — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2023 Indeed, Blighty’s inward investment drum has been beating long and loudly with a focus on studios and streamers, who drove a majority of the U.K.’s near £5 billion ($6 billion) of qualifying film and High End TV productions in 2022. — Angus Finney, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023 The big event might be over in Old Blighty, but don’t feel forlorn, royal-lovers. — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023 Not far away is an earlier housing development that is even more redolent of Blighty: Foxhall Village. — John Kelly, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2022

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Noun

Like previous host countries, Turkey is likely to use the summit to put its own security concerns and defense industry on the agenda.

— Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 6 July 2026
And, in a country struck by tragedy, this loss felt close to home.

— Liana Handler Follow, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026

Definition of country

Noun

In the wake of Argentina’s 2-1 win over England in Wednesday’s semifinal match, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution picked several hometown winners of the biggest sporting event to hit the city since 1996 Centennial Olympic Games.

— Kelly Yamanouchi, AJC.com, 16 July 2026
De Niro and Scott are on hand as an estranged father and son who are brought back together when Scott’s character’s young son is abducted after the pair move back to his sleepy hometown after a horrible tragedy.

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 14 July 2026

Definition of hometown

Noun

While its roots go back to Don the Beachcomber in Hollywood in the 1930s, tiki culture blossomed after World War II, when American soldiers came back from the Pacific theater with stories of tropical islands.

— Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 18 July 2026
The iconic convenience store chain anchored in the East has roots that stretch back to a Pennsylvania dairy store in 1902.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2026

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