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English /ingˈglish/

adjective
  1. Belonging to England or its inhabitants
  2. (loosely, and deprecated by the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish) British
  3. Of or relating to the English language
noun
  1. The English people (as pl)
  2. A Germanic language spoken in the British Isles, USA, most parts of the Commonwealth, etc
  3. 14-point type (printing)
  4. Side (N American; snooker, etc)
transitive verb
  1. To translate into English (archaic or rare)
  2. To make English or anglicize
  3. To influence with English characteristics, customs, etc
  4. To impart side to (N American; snooker, etc)
ORIGIN: OE Englisc, from Engle Angles

Engˈlander noun (facetious, as though a mistaken transl of eg Ger Engländer)

An Englishman

Engˈlified adjective

  1. Like the English of England in speech or ways
  2. Affecting an English manner of speaking (Scot)

Engˈlisher noun

  1. A translator into English
  2. An Englishman (Scot)

Engˈlishism noun (US; rare)

  1. An expression or idiom originating in or found only in the English of England or Britain
  2. A custom or practice peculiar to England
  3. Great admiration or enthusiasm for England and its customs, etc

Engˈlishness noun

Engˈlishry noun

  1. The fact of being English
  2. In Ireland, the population of English descent

English bond noun

A bricklayer's bond of alternate courses of headers and stretchers (cf Flemish bond)

English breakfast noun

A cooked breakfast, usu including bacon, eggs and tomatoes (cf continental breakfast)

English disease noun

The British disease

English flute noun

The recorder

English horn noun

The cor anglais

Engˈlishman or Engˈlishwoman noun

A native or naturalized inhabitant of England

English mustard noun

A hot, bright-yellow kind of mustard (the condiment)

English rose noun

An English girl with a fair complexion and regarded as classically beautiful

English sickness same as English disease above.

English sweat noun (old)

The sweating sickness (qv under sweat)

Basic English see under base1

Early English

  1. Often used vaguely, eg for early Middle English or for Middle and early Modern English
  2. The form of Gothic architecture in which the pointed arch was first employed in Britain, succeeding the Norman towards the end of the 12c and merging into the Decorated at the end of the 13c (Early-English adjective)

in plain English

In clear, simple language

little Englander

  1. A 19c British opponent of British imperialism and empire-building
  2. A late-20c or early-21c British supporter of the view that Britain should retain its individual national identity rather than become part of a more integrated Europe

little Englanderism or Englandism

Middle English

The English used in Britain from about 1100 or 1150AD until about 1500

Modern English

The English used in Britain from about 1500 onwards

Old English

  1. A kind of black-letter typeface (printing)
  2. The English language up to about 1100 or 1150AD (formerly, and still popularly, called Anglo-Saxon)

presentment of Englishry (historical)

The offering of proof that a person murdered belonged to the English race, to escape the fine levied on the hundred or township for the murder of a Norman

Young England see under young

basic /bāˈsik/

adjective
  1. Belonging to or of the nature of a base
  2. Fundamental
  3. Simple, plain, without extras
  4. Containing excess of a base (chem, dyeing, steel-making, etc)
  5. Poor in silica, opp to acid (geology)
noun

(in pl) fundamental principles

ORIGIN: base1

bāsˈically adverb

  1. With reference to what is basic
  2. Fundamentally, essentially

bāsicity /bās-isˈit-i/ noun

Basic English noun

  1. A reduced English vocabulary of 850 words for teaching foreigners or for use as an auxiliary language
  2. (without cap) English using few and simple words

basic(-oxygen) process noun

A steelmaking process in which oxygen is blown at high pressure through molten pig iron

basic salt noun

A salt having one or more hydroxyl groups in place of an acid radical or radicals

basic slag noun

A by-product of the basic process, rich in lime and used as manure

back to basics

A political slogan advocating a return to what are regarded as basic values of morality and behaviour
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