ENGLISH • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of English

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ˈɪŋglɪʃ/ /ˈɪŋlɪʃ/ Listen

English

adjective

Of or relating to or characteristic of England or its culture or people. "The English landed aristocracy" , "English literature"

Of or relating to the English language.

noun

An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries. Synonym: English language.

The people of England. Synonym: English people.

The discipline that studies the English language and literature.

(sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist. Synonym: side.

See more definitions of English...

See images of 'English'

Etymology of 'English'

Related searches:

English bean

English breakfast tea

English bulldog

English cavalry saddle

English Channel

English Civil War

English cocker spaniel

English springer spaniel

English-Gothic architecture

English-speaking

English-weed

African American English

African American Vernacular English

American English

1 2 Next

Share |

"English" Quotes from Famous Books

... Testament."—Bible cor. "In the second and third persons of that tense."—Murray cor. "And who still unites in himself the human and the divine nature."—Gurney cor. "Among whom arose the Italian, Spanish, French, and English languages."—Murray cor. "Whence arise these two numbers, the ...

— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... "Then I'll speak English." Umluana was a small man with wrinkled brow, glasses and a mustache. His skin was a shade lighter than Read's. "The Inspector General doesn't have the power to arrest a head of state—especially the Premier of Belderkan. ...

— The Green Beret • Thomas Edward Purdom

... against nations—at Dresden, Lutzen, and Bautzen. Don't you ever forget that time, because it was then that Frenchmen showed how wonderfully heroic they could be. A good grenadier, in those days, seldom lasted more than six months. We always won, of course; but there in our rear were the English, stirring up the nations to take sides against us. But we fought our way through this pack of nations at last. Wherever Napoleon showed himself, we rushed; and whenever, on land or sea, he said, "I ...

— Folk-Tales of Napoleon - The Napoleon of the People; Napoleonder • Honore de Balzac and Alexander Amphiteatrof

... Morris consulted an evening paper, and when he turned to the sporting page he found the upper halves of seven columns effaced by a huge illustration executed in the best style of Jig, the Sporting Cartoonist. In the left-hand corner crouched Slogger Atkins, the English lightweight, while opposite to him in the right-hand corner stood Young Kilrain, poised in an attitude of defense. Underneath was the legend, "The Contestants in Tomorrow Night's Battle." By reference to ...

— Potash & Perlmutter - Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures • Montague Glass

... be the cause. But a population so impoverished as the Irish could not perhaps avail themselves of the means of locomotion; and yet it appeared from research that the rate of passengers on the two Irish railways that were open greatly exceeded in number that of the passengers upon English and Scotch railways. The average number of passengers on English and Scotch railways was not twelve thousand per mile per annum, while on the Ulster railway the number was nearly twenty-two thousand, and on the Dublin and Drogheda line the number ...

— Lord George Bentinck - A Political Biography • Benjamin Disraeli

More quotes...