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englishman
/ˈɪŋ.lɪʃ.mən/
noun 5
Collocations
5ADJ.
better, curious, last, repeated
VERB + ENGLISHMAN
make, replied, speaking, tell
ENGLISHMAN + NOUN
alien, american
PREP.
about, from, from, in
ADV.
coldly, generally, particularly
Definitions
noun
1
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.
2
A grey partridge (in contrast with Frenchman, red-legged partridge).
3
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 ...
4
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!
noun
1
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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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.
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To see twenty or thirty female Englishmen of full regulation-size dancing a ballet, is an overpowering luxury.
Wiktionary03
All Englishmen, male and female, young and old, are for the purposes of this establishment considered clean.
Wiktionary04
In Chꝛiſt there is nether frẽch ner engliſh: but the frenchman is the engliſhmans awne ſelfe / and the engliſh the frenchmans awne ſelfe.
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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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HAuing at this preſent publiſhed the Hiſtory off the Church of England, compiled by Venerable Bede, a lerned light of our countre aboue 800. yeares paſt, wherein the Faith firſt planted amonge vs engl
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