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Definition of British Honduras

1. Noun. A country on the northeastern coast of Central America on the Caribbean; formerly under British control.

Definition of British Honduras

1. Proper noun. (historical) The former name of what is now called Belize, used from 1862 to 1981. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of British Honduras

Literary usage of British Honduras

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies by Charles Prestwood Lucas (1905)
"CHAPTER IX British Honduras THE entrance to the Gulf of Mexico is between two great promontories, Florida on the north, Yucatan on the south. ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1887)
"NOTES ON PART OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER OF British Honduras. say that it was not so, but it was not yet proved to his satisfaction that the Welle fell into ..."

3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1889)
"IN January last I made an excursion from British Honduras into Yucatan territory ... Bacalar is well known to the colonist of British Honduras, and several ..."

4. A Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British ...by British Museum Dept. of Printed Books, George Knottesford Fortescue by British Museum Dept. of Printed Books, George Knottesford Fortescue (1891)
"HONDURAS, British. HONDURAS. Consolidated Laws. pp. 972. Land. 188 . 8". ... West Indies and British Honduras, pp. 192. Loud. 886. 8°. 7959. d. 20. ..."

5. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"A COLLECTION OF ANTS FROM British Honduras. BY WILLIAM MORTON WHEELER. PLATES XI AND XII. The collection of ants enumerated in the following pages was made ..."

6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1891)
"i There are a very nicely taken set of photographs illustrating the scenery and dwellings of the country people in British Honduras. ..."

7. Central America: Or, The Land of the Quiches and Chontales by Edward A. Lever (1885)
"Mr. AR Gibbs, in, published in London, a fair sized volume, entitled “British Honduras, an historical and descriptive account of the Colony from its ..."

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