British

Significat

Noun

1. The residents or inhabitants of Great Britain.
2. The citizens or inhabitants of the United Kingdom.
3. The earlier inhabitants of southern Britain, prior to the Anglo-Saxon invasion and subsequent migrations.

Name

1. The Celtic language of the ancient Britons; Common Brittonic.
2. (obsolete) Synonym of Welsh: the Welsh people.
3. The British English language.

Adj

1. Of Britain.
2. Of the United Kingdom.
3. Of the Commonwealth of Nations, or the British Empire.
4. Of the ancient inhabitants of the southern part of Britain; Brythonic.
5. Of the British Isles.
6. Of British English.

Amb guionet com

Brit‧ish

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈbɹɪtɪʃ/

Etimologia

From Middle English Brittish, from Old English Brettisċ.
The spelling with single -t- appears in the 13th century under the influence of Medieval Latin Britannicus, but spelling with -tt- persists alongside -t- during the 13th to 17th centuries.
In reference to the island of Great Britain from ca. 1400 (Latin natio Anglica sive Britannica, Brittisshe occean 1398, the Britishe nacion 1548).
As a noun, referring to the British people, British soldiers, etc. from ca. 1600.

Sents

His grandfather is British .

Memotech did not receive funding they expected from the British government for this project .

Doctor Pedro Malan was appointed to the Board of British American Tobacco p . l . c .

The British were more present in northern Sudan , especially towards Khartoum .