Englishman

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A native or inhabitant of England

   A native or inhabitant of England; a man who is English by ancestry, birth, descent, or naturalisation.

   • 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.
   • To see twenty or thirty female Englishmen of full regulation-size dancing a ballet, is an overpowering luxury.
   • All Englishmen, male and female, young and old, are for the purposes of this establishment considered clean.
2. 2

   A grey partridge (in contrast with Frenchman, red-legged partridge).

3. 3

   A Canadian of British descent and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to…

   A Canadian of British descent and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to French-descended, French-speaking Canadians).

   • ... others, an aging Englishman who would do anything to further his fortune ...
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   1. 4

      A South African of British descent, and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to…

      A South African of British descent, and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to Afrikaans-speaking Afrikaner South Africans).

      • Fucking above your head Englishman!
   2. 5

      Obsolete form of Englishman.

      • In Chꝛiſt there is nether frẽch ner engliſh: but the frenchman is the engliſhmans awne ſelfe / and the engliſh the frenchmans awne ſelfe.
      • Adꝛian the .iiii. an engliſhman boꝛne, conſtreigned the Conſulles and Senatours of Rome to depoſe theym ſelfes, and to committe all theyꝛ rule vnto the churche.

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