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Englishman
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englishman
English
Alternative forms
en englishman obsolete
Etymology
From en enm Englishman, enm Inglishman, from en ang Englisċman, ang Englisċmon, corresponding to en English man. Compare non Englismaðr Englishman.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɪŋ.lɪʃ.mən/ /ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ.mən/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Englishman.wav Southern England
Noun
Englishmen
en England A native or inhabitant of England; a man who is English by ancestry, birth, descent or naturalisation. from 7th c.
en Englander Englishperson English<qq:in the plural> Englisher<ll:<<dated>> or <<humorous>>> Southron<ll:Scots> Saxon<ll:Wales,Ireland> pom Nigel<ll:Australia> overner<ll:Isle of Wight>
en Brit Briton
en Blimp Little Englander Middle Englander ; Londoner Cornishman Midlander Geordie
en Englishwoman ; Irishman Scotsman Welshman
en c. 1541 The Chronicle of Calais London 1846 the Ynglishe men had great vyctorye, for there was taken and slayne a greate nombar, and there was slayne the lorde Morley and Englishe man.
en 1853 Saunterings in and about London. By Max Schlesinger. The English edition by Otto Wenckstern 278 London To see twenty or thirty female Englishmen of full regulation-size dancing a ballet, is an overpowering luxury.
en 1873 George Webbe Dasent Jest an Earnest. A Collection of Essays and Reviews. In two Volumes. Vol. I 156 London All Englishmen, male and female, young and old, are for the purposes of this establishment considered clean.
en 1909 Rambles and Adventures in Australasia, Canada, India, etc. By St. Michael-Podmore 270 London Rest assured it cannot rest idle until Englishmen, male, female, and children are mercilessly massacred to the best interests of the country.
en 1931 w:Noel Coward Mad Dogs and Englishmen In Bangkok at twelve o'clock they foam at the mouth and run, / But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.
en Richard Schickel Sweet Agonies of Affection Time 3 Nov 2003 He has his dark -- well, darkish -- side under control. Which is to say that he is an Englishman, well practiced in masking pain and absurdity and descents into sheer goofiness with mannerly behavior, sly irony and stiff upper lips.
en 2013-08-20 Louise Taylor English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing w:The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/aug/19/english-talent-premier-league-importing Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen. Pardew has high hopes that one young Englishman, Paul Dummett, a left-back from Gosforth, the same Newcastle suburb that produced Alan Shearer, will make at least 10 appearances for his side this season. https://web.archive.org/web/20261015081507/https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/aug/19/english-talent-premier-league-importing 15 October 2026
1 17 Scottish Independence Yea, but that’s not really a surprise, is it? She famously wrote a book where a redhead plays second fiddle to a magical Englishman. “Come along, Ron, come along. I shall have all the powers, and your brothers can die fighting my war. Come along.”
en September 14, 2014 w:John Oliver w:Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 1 17 Scottish Independence HBO Also, for their national flower, the Scots chose a thistle. That is a plant made of tiny knives and a throwing star. “The only flower I like is a flower that can pierce an Englishman’s throat!”.
en UK A grey partridge (in contrast with Frenchman, red-legged partridge).
en Quebec dated ethnic slur A Canadian of British descent and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to French-descended, French-speaking Canadians).
en 2017 David Bélanger; Béatrice G. Martineau; Charles Grenier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqUlW7LTx20&t=281 Kona Kona Canada Parabole ... others, an aging Englishman who would do anything to further his fortune ...
en South Africa dated ethnic slur A South African of British descent, and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to Afrikaans-speaking Afrikaner South Africans).
en Christopher-Lee dos Santos At thy Call https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3-F4qZYJz4 Fucking above your head Englishman! 2008 Dino Pappas and Ksenija Micic
Derived terms
en Englishmanly Englishman's knot
Translations
(male) native or inhabitant of England
Afrikaans: af Engelsman
Albanian: sq anglez m
Amharic: am እንግሊዛዊ
Arabic: ar إِنْجِلِيزِيّ m ʔingilīziyy
Armenian: hy անգլիացի
Asturian: ast inglés
Azerbaijani: male or female az ingilis
Belarusian: be англіча́нін m, be анге́лец m
Breton: br Saoz m
Bulgarian: bg англича́нин m
Catalan: ca anglès m
Valencian: ca anglés m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 英格蘭人 male or female, cmn 英國人 also British
Cornish: kw Sows m
Czech: cs Angličan m
Danish: da englænder c, da engelskmand c obsolete
Dutch: nl Engelsman m
Esperanto: eo anglo
Estonian: et inglane
Faroese: fo eingilskmaður
Finnish: fi englantilainen male or female, fi englantilaismies male
French: fr Anglais m
Middle French: frm Angloys m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Ingelsman
Galician: gl inglés m, gl engrés archaic
Georgian: ka ინგლისელი
German: de Engländer m
Alemannic German: gsw Ängländer m
Greek: el Άγγλος m
Greenlandic: kl tuluk
Hebrew: he אַנְגְּלִי m ang'lí
Hindi: hi अंग्रेज़ m
Hungarian: hu angol, hu angol férfi
Icelandic: is Englendingur m
Interlingua: ia anglese
Irish: ga Sasanach m
Italian: it inglese m
Japanese: ja イギリス人 イギリスじん, Igirisu-jin male or female
Kalmyk: xal пильң
Kazakh: kk ағылшын
Korean: ko 영국인 male or female, ko 영국 사람; ko 영국 남자
Kyrgyz: ky англичанин
Lao: lo ຄົນອັງກິດ
Latin: la Anglus m, la anglicus m
Latvian: lv anglis m
Lithuanian: lt anglas m
Macedonian: mk Англичанец m
Miami: mia aakalaahšima
Mongolian: mn англи хүн male or female
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb engelskmann m
Nynorsk: nn engelskmann m
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Анґлиєц m, rsk Енґлейз m colloquial
Pashto: ps انګرېز m angréz
Persian: fa انگلیسی engelisi
Polish: pl Anglik m-pr
Portuguese: pt inglês m
Romanian: ro englez m
Russian: ru англича́нин m
Scottish Gaelic: gd Sasannach m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Ѐнгле̄з m
Latin: sh Ènglēz m
Sicilian: scn ngrisi m
Slovak: sk Angličan m
Slovene: sl Angléž m
Spanish: es inglés m
Swahili: sw Mwingereza
Swedish: sv engelsman c
Tajik: male or female tg англис, tg англисӣ
Tamil: ta ஆங்கிலேயன், ta வெள்ளையன், ta வெள்ளைக்காரன்
Thai: male or female th คนอังกฤษ kon ang-grìt
Tibetan: bo དབྱིན་ཇི
Turkish: male or female tr İngiliz
Turkmen: tk iňlis
Ukrainian: uk англі́єць m
Unami: unm kwènashikànat
Urdu: ur انگریز m angrez
Uyghur: ug ئىنگلىز
Uzbek: uz ingliz
Vietnamese: vi người Anh male or female
Volapük: vo Linglänan, vo hi-Linglänan male
Welsh: cy Sais m
en male equivalent nouns nouns with irregular plurals
en Demonyms Fowls British demonyms England Nationalities United Kingdom