english
/ˈɪŋ.(ɡ)lɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.19 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to England.
adj
English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.
adj
Of or pertaining to the people of England (e.g. Englishmen and Englishwomen).
adj
Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
adj
Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.
adj
Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors on a camera.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Those immigrants Anglicised their names to make them sound more English."
- "Honest, honest, English is just a language of confusions."
- "The Uſuwrper [...] within a few miles Tanna's Fort, near the Engliſh ſettlement of Fort William."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *Angli Old English Engle Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Old English Englisċ Middle English Englisch English English 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. Doublet of Anglish. 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
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɪŋ.(ɡ)lɪʃ/
- British English: /ˈɪŋ.(ɡ)lɪʃ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more English (comparative)
most English (superlative)
Inglish (alternative, dated)
Englishe (alternative, archaic)
Englishes (plural)
Englishes (present, singular)
Englishing (participle, present)
Englished (participle, past)
Englished (past)