englishman
/ˈɪŋ.lɪʃ.mən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.42 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A native or inhabitant of England; a man who is English by ancestry, birth, descent, or naturalisation.
noun
A Canadian of British descent and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to French-descended, French-speaking Canadians).
Dated
noun
A South African of British descent, and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to Afrikaans-speaking Afrikaner South Africans).
Dated
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "To see twenty or thirty female Englishmen of full regulation-size dancing a ballet, is an overpowering luxury."
- "All Englishmen, male and female, young and old, are for the purposes of this establishment considered clean."
- "Rest assured it cannot rest idle until Englishmen, male, female, and children are mercilessly massacred to the best interests of the country."
- "In Bangkok at twelve o'clock they foam at the mouth and run, / But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun."
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English Englishman, Inglishman, from Old English Englisċman, Englisċmon, corresponding to English + -man. Compare Old Norse Englismaðr (“Englishman”).