Meaning

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

    Engländer

    англича́нинangličánin

    англі́єцьanhlíjecʹ

    a man who is a native or inhabitant of England

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

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

  4. (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).

Examples

61 sentences
  1. Englishmen are, on the whole, conservative.

    Англійці загалом консервативні.

    ruАнгличане в основном консервативны.

    deEngländer sind im Allgemeinen konservativ.

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  2. He mistook me for an Englishman.

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  3. She had her English composition checked by an Englishman.

    deSie hat ihren englischen Text von einem Engländer überprüfen lassen.

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  4. It's hard to tell Englishmen from Americans just by the way they look.

    deEs ist schwer, einen Engländer nur an seinem Aussehen von einem Amerikaner zu unterscheiden.

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  5. I thought he was an American but he turned out to be an Englishman.

    ruЯ думал, он американец, но он оказался англичанином.

    deIch hatte ihn für einen Amerikaner gehalten, aber er erwies sich als Engländer.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
(male) native or inhabitant of England:
Русский
By meaning 1
(male) native or inhabitant of England:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
(male) native or inhabitant of England:

Origin

From Middle English Englishman, Inglishman, from Old English Englisċman, Englisċmon, corre

From Middle English Englishman, Inglishman, from Old English Englisċman, Englisċmon, corresponding to English + -man. Compare Old Norse Englismaðr (“Englishman”).

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Forms

plural: Englishmen
SingularEnglishman
PluralEnglishmen

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Synonyms

9 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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