Briton

briton English thumb|Britons Etymology en :der fro:Breton 1 From en fro Breton, from en la Brittō. en Breton Brython. Pronunciation en /ˈbɹɪt.ən/ en en-uk-Britain.ogg UK en ɪtən 2 en Brit on en Britain Noun An inhabitant of Great Britain, particularly en historical a Celt from the area of Roman Britain or en obsolete a Welshman; a British person. en 1905 w:Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall w:Our Island Story 59 https://archive.org/details/islandstorychild00mars/page/59/ At last the Saxons had killed nearly all the Britons, and the few who remained took refuge in the mountains, in that part of the country which we now call Wales, and in Cornwall. He writhed for twenty minutes under the flowery and eulogistic periods of the president, and rose himself in the state of confused indignation which the Briton feels when he is publicly approved. en The ancient Britons were particularly fond of Anglesey, which the Romans knew as Mona. A citizen of the United Kingdom or en historical obsolete its overseas empire. en 1547 James Harrison An Exhortacion to the Scottes... G v b ...when these hateful termes of Scottes and Englishemen, shalbe abolisshed, and blotted oute for euer, and we shal al agre in the onely title and name of Britons... en Rule, Britannia! Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves:Britons never, never, never will be slaves. James Thomson Thomas Arne 1740 1760, George III of England King George III, quoted in George Rose's 1860 Diaries and Correspondence..., Vol. II, p. 189: I glory in the name of Briton. en 1902 George Stoddart Whitmore The Last Maori War in New Zealand... vi Many of the rank and file had no better conception of the proud and sensitive Maori than was implied in the degrading 'nigger' theory, invariably applied by the unthinking Briton to all coloured races. en The victims included 3 Canadians, 2 Irishmen, and 1 Briton. en The hiker was a Briton from New Zealand. Usage notes Citizens of Britain are usually known collectively as the en British and informally as en Brits. en Englishman was traditionally used whenever a formal countable demonym was required, although this is increasingly deprecated as a general term except in exclusive reference to the people of England proper. Briton has been used for modern people since the personal union of England and Scotland under James I of England James I, but some speakers continue to deprecate that sense and use it exclusively to refer to the ancient Celts in the region of Roman Britain, which covered modern England and Wales south of Caledonia. When a speaker is accustomed to calling modern Brits Britons, the former Celtic peoples are usually distinguished as the ancient Britons. Synonyms native of Great Britain, subject of the UK the en British collective; en Brit colloquial; en Britisher now chiefly Canada, US, India; en limey jocular; en pom, en pommy, etc. Australia, NZ, South African slang, sometimes offensive; see en Englishman proscribed, sometimes offensive Celts of ancient Britain en ancient Briton native of Wales See en Welshman Hyponyms en Britishman now nonstandard, en Britoness literary Derived terms en Briton Ferry Britoness Brittonic Cambro-Briton Indo-Briton North Briton South Briton West Briton Related terms See Britain Translations ancient Celts in the area of modern England and Wales Catalan: ca brità m, ca britana, ca britó m, ca britona f Finnish: fi britti, fi brittiläinen German: de Britannier m Greek: Ancient Greek: grc Βρεττανός m Italian: it Britanni m-p Latin: la Britannus m Latvian: lv brits m, lv briti f-p Marathi: mr ब्रिटन m Old English: ang Brett m Romanian: ro britonici m-p Russian: ru бритт m Sicilian: scn Britanni m-p f-p Spanish: es britano m Welsh: cy Brython m citizen of Great Britain Afrikaans: af Brit Arabic: ar بَرِيطَانِيّ m, ar بَرِيطَانِيَّة f, ar بِرِيطَانِيّ m, ar بِرِيطَانِيَّة f Armenian: hy բրիտանացի Asturian: ast británicu m, ast británica f Belarusian: be брыта́нец m, be брыта́нка f Bulgarian: bg брита́нец m, bg брита́нка f, bg брита́нче n child Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 英國人 Czech: cs Brit m, cs Britka f Danish: da brite Dutch: nl Brit m Estonian: et britt Faroese: fo breti m Finnish: fi britti French: fr Britannique m f, fr Grand-Breton m ironic, fr Grande-Bretonne f ironic Galician: gl británico m German: de Brite m, de Britin f Greek: el Βρετανός m, el Βρετανή f, el Βρετανίδα f Ancient Greek: grc Βρεττανός m, grc Βρεττανίς f Hebrew: he בְּרִיטִי m briti, he בריטית f britít Icelandic: is Breti m Indonesian: id orang Inggris Japanese: ja イギリス人 イギリスじん, igirisujin Kazakh: kk британдық, kk британиялық Korean: ko 영국인, ko 영국 사람 Kyrgyz: ky британиялык Latvian: lv brits m, lv briti m-p, lv britiete f Lithuanian: lt britas m, lt britė f Macedonian: mk Британец m, mk Британка f Marathi: mr ब्रिटन m Norwegian: Bokmål: nb brite m Nynorsk: nn brite m Old English: ang Brytas m-p, ang Bryttas m, Britons of Wales ang Bryttwealas m-p, ang Bryttwalas m-p Persian: fa بریتانیایی beritâniyâyi Polish: pl Brytyjczyk m, pl Brytyjka f Portuguese: pt britânico m, pt britânica f Romanian: ro britanic m, ro britanică f Russian: ru брита́нец m, ru брита́нка f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Бритонац m, sh Брита́нац m Latin: sh Britonac m, sh Británac m Slovak: sk Brit m, sk Britka f Spanish: es británico m, es británica f, es reinounidense m f Swedish: sv britt c Tajik: tg британӣ Ukrainian: uk брита́нець m, uk брита́нка f Uzbek: uz ingliz Vietnamese: vi người Anh Welsh: cy Prydeiniwr References Briton n. and adj 23468 2021 en Celtic tribes British demonymsen Nationalitiesen Peopleen United Kingdom Czech Pronunciation Noun m-an en Briton historical: Celtic inhabitant of southern Britain at the time of the Roman conquest Declension cs noun