English
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English Englisch, English, Inglis, from Old English Englisċ (“of the Angles; English”), from Engle (“the Angles”), a Germanic tribe + -isċ; equal to Angle + -ish. Compare Холандски Engels, Дански engelsk, Old French Englesche (whence Француски anglais), Немачки englisch, Шпански inglés, ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow”) (compare Санскрт अंहु (áṃhu, “narrow”), अंहस् (áṃhas, “anxiety, sin”), Латински angustus (“narrow”), Old Church Slavonic ѫзъкъ (ǫzŭkŭ, “narrow”)).
Pronunciation
- (UK) МФА(кључ): /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/, (non-standard) /ˈɪŋɡəlɪʃ/
- (US) МФА(кључ): /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/, (also) /ˈɪŋlɪʃ/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: Eng‧lish
Adjective
English (comparative more English, superlative most English)
- Of or pertaining to England.
- English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.
- Those immigrants Anglicised their names to make them sound more English.
- Of or pertaining to the people of England (to Englishmen and Englishwomen).
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:
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- Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
- an English ton
- (Amish) Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.
Hyponyms
Translations
of or pertaining to England
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of or pertaining to the English language
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of or pertaining to an Englishman, Englishwoman, the English
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of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system
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Noun
English (countable and uncountable, plural English or Englishes)
- (in the plural) The people of England; Englishmen and Englishwomen.
- The Scottish and the English have a history of conflict.
- (Amish, in the plural) The non-Amish; non-Amish people.
- (uncountable) Ability to employ the English language correctly or idiomatically.
- My coworkers have pretty good English for non-native speakers.
- The English-language term or expression for something.
- What's the English for ‘à peu près’?
- (uncountable) Specific language or wording in English; English text or statements in speech, whether in translation or otherwise.
- The technical details are correct, but much of the English is not very clear.
- (printing, dated) A size of type between pica (12 point) and great primer (18 point), standardized as 14-point.
- (uncountable, Canada, US) Spin or sidespin given to a ball, especially in pool or billiards.
- You are trying to put too much English on the ball.
Usage notes
- The people as a collective noun require the definite article "the" or a demonstrative adjective. Hence: "The English are coming!" or "Oh, those English, always drinking their tea..."
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
people from England
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one's ability to employ the English language
English-language term or expression
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specific language or wording
14-point type
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Proper noun
English
- The language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and other parts of the world.
- English is spoken here as an unofficial language and lingua franca.
- How do you say ‘à peu près’ in English?
- A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English.
- 2003, Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue", in The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, page 278
- I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English I spoke to my mother, which for lack of a better term might be described as “simple”; the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”; my translation of her Chinese, which could certainly be described as “watered down”; and what I imagined to be her translation of her Chinese if she could speak in perfect English, her internal language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure.
- 2003, Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue", in The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, page 278
- English language, literature, composition as a subject of study
- An English презиме originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain.
- A male or female given name
- A town in Indiana; the county seat of Crawford County; named for Indiana statesman William Hayden English
Hypernyms
- (language spoken in British Isles, North America, etc): Anglo-Saxon; language
Usage notes
- As with the names of almost all languages, English, when it means "the English language", does not usually require an article. Hence: "Say it in plain English!"
Translations
the English language
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English dialect
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transliterations of the surname
Derived terms
Terms derived from English (adjective and noun)
- African American Vernacular English
- American English
- Australian English
- BBC English
- British English
- Canadian English
- Classical English
- Commonwealth English
- do you speak English?
- Early Modern English
- Elizabethan English
- English basement
- English Bluebell
- English bond
- English breakfast
- English breakfast tea
- English Channel
- English fever
- English flute
- English garden
- English horn
- English Latin
- Englishman
- Englishmen
- English mile
- English muffin
- Englishness
- English pale
- English pea
- English pease
- English plantain
- English Plus
- English rhubarb
- English saddle
- English sonnet
- English sparrow
- English studies
- English vice
- English walnut
- English wheat
- Englishwoman
- Englishwomen
- Estuary English
- full English
- full English breakfast
- Hiberno-English
- Indian English
- King's English
- Korean English
- Medieval English
- Middle English
- Modern English
- Multicultural London English
- Newfoundland English
- New Zealand English
- Old English
- Old English Sheepdog
- pidgin English
- Queen's English
- Scottish English
- Singapore English
- South African English
- Standard English
- White English Bulldog
Verb
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- (transitive, archaic) To translate, adapt or render into English.
- (deprecated use of, page 214 (2001 reprint):
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- 2011, Colin Cheney, 'Where Should I Start with Tomas Tranströmer?':
- Here, the poems are Englished by twelve different translators
See also
Quotations
- За наводе коришћења овог термина, видите Цитати:English.
Further reading
- English at OneLook Dictionary Search
- ISO 639-1 code en, ISO 639-3 code eng
- Ethnologue entry for English, en