Englishman

English

Greg Rutherford, an Englishman

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋ.lɪʃ.mən/, /ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ.mən/

Noun

Englishman (plural Englishmen)

1. A male native or inhabitant of England; a man who is English by ancestry, birth, descent, or naturalisation. [from 7th c.]
   • c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London 1846:

     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.

   • 1931, Noel Coward, "Mad Dogs and Englishmen":

     In Bangkok at twelve o'clock they foam at the mouth and run, / But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.

   • 2003, Richard Schickel, "Sweet Agonies of Affection", Time, 3 Nov 2003:

     He has his dark -- well, darkish -- side under control. Which is to say that he is an Englishman, well practiced in masking pain and absurdity and descents into sheer goofiness with mannerly behavior, sly irony and stiff upper lips.

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2. (UK) The grey partridge (in opposition to the Frenchman, i.e., the 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).
   • 2017, David Bélanger, Béatrice G. Martineau, and Charles Grenier, “Kona”, in Kona‎^[1], Canada: Parabole:

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

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).
   • 2008, Christopher-Lee dos Santos, At thy Call‎^[2], Dino Pappas and Ksenija Micic:

     Fucking above your head Englishman!

Coordinate terms

• (male native of England): Englishwoman, Irishman, Scotsman, Welshman, Briton

Translations

male native or inhabitant of England

• Afrikaans: Engelsman (af)
• Arabic: إِنْجِلِيزِيّ m (ʾingilīziyy)
• Armenian: անգլիացի (angliacʻi)
• Belarusian: англічанін m (anhličanin), ангелец m (anhjeljec)
• Breton: Saoz (br) m
• Bulgarian: англича́нин m (angličánin)
• Catalan: anglès (ca) m

  Valencian: anglés (ca) m

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 英格蘭人／英格兰人 (Yīnggélánrén), 英格兰人 (Yīngélánrén) (male or female)

• Czech: Angličan (cs) m
• Danish: englænder (da) c, engelskmand c (obsolete)
• Dutch: Engelsman (nl) m
• Estonian: inglane
• Finnish: englantilainen (fi) (male or female), englantilaismies (male)
• French: Anglais (fr) m

  Middle French: Angloys m

• Galician: inglés (gl) m, engrés (archaic)
• German: Engländer (de) m

  Alemannic German: Ängländer m

• Greek: Άγγλος (el) m (Ánglos)
• Hebrew: אנגלי
• Hungarian: angol (hu), angol férfi
• Icelandic: Englendingur (is) m
• Interlingua: anglese (ia)
• Irish: Sasanach (ga) m
• Italian: inglese (it) m
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• Japanese: イギリス人 (ja) (Igirisu-jin) (male or female)
• Lao: ຄົນອັງກິດ (khon 'ang-kit)
• Latin: Anglus m
• Latvian: anglis m, angliete f
• Lithuanian: anglas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Англичанец m (Angličanec)
• Norwegian: engelskmann (no) m
• Polish: Anglik (pl) m pers
• Portuguese: inglês (pt) m
• Romanian: Englez m
• Russian: англича́нин (ru) m (angličánin)
• Scottish Gaelic: Sasannach m
• Serbo-Croatian: Енглез m, Englez m
• Sicilian: ngrisi (scn) m
• Slovak: Angličan (sk) m
• Slovene: Angléž (sl) m
• Spanish: inglés (es) m
• Swahili: Mwingereza (sw)
• Swedish: engelsman (sv) m
• Tibetan: དབྱིན་ཇི (dbyin ji)
• Turkish: İngiliz (tr)
• Ukrainian: англі́єць (uk) m (anhlíjecʹ)
• Vietnamese: người Anh
• Volapük: Linglänan (vo) m or f, hi-Linglänan m, ji-Linglänan f
• Welsh: Sais (cy) m
• West Frisian: Ingelsman