English
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈɪŋɡəlɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈɪŋɡləʃ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪŋˈɡlɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡlɪʃ
Forms: form: more English
form: most English
form: Inglish
form: Englishe
form: english
form: english
Etymology: From Middle English Englisch, English, Inglis, from Old English Englisċ (“of the Angles; English”), from Engle (“the Angles”), a Germanic tribe + -isċ; equivalent to Engle + -ish. Compare West Frisian Ingelsk, Scots Inglis (older ynglis), Dutch Engels, Danish engelsk, Old French Englesche (whence French anglais), German englisch, Spanish inglés, all ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow”) (compare Sanskrit अंहु (áṃhu, “narrow”), अंहस् (áṃhas, “anxiety, sin”), Latin angustus (“narrow”), Old Church Slavonic ѫзъкъ (ǫzŭkŭ, “narrow”)). More at Angles (tribe) § Etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Senses: examples: text: During the war of 1914–18 the English working class were in contact with foreigners to an extent that is rarely possible. The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans, except the Germans, whose courage they admired.
ref: 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:
glosses: Of or pertaining to England.
examples: text: Those immigrants Anglicised their names to make them sound more English.
text: Honest, honest, English is just a language of confusions.
ref: 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 187:
glosses: English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.
examples: text: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter.
ref: 2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native Americans”, in CNN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the people of England (e.g. Englishmen and Englishwomen).
examples: text: an English ton
glosses: Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
glosses: Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
coordinate_terms: Chinese
glosses: Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors on a camera.
Synonyms: sense: related to England
english: Scots
translation: Scots
word: southron
Hyponyms: Anglish
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from English (adjective)
word: English Bicknor
sense: Terms derived from English (adjective)
word: English bluebell
sense: Terms derived from English (adjective)
word: English Foxhound
sense: Terms derived from English (adjective)
word: English River
sense: Terms derived from English (adjective)
word: English round hand
sense: Terms derived from English (adjective)
word: English sweat
sense: Terms derived from English (adjective)
word: English toy spaniel
sense: Terms derived from English (adjective)
word: full English
sense: Terms derived from English (adjective)
word: full English breakfast
sense: Terms derived from English (adjective)
word: un-English
sense: Terms derived from English (adjective)
word: white English bulldog