BRITISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does British mean? 

• BRITISH (noun)
  The noun BRITISH has 1 sense:

1. the people of Great Britain

  Familiarity information: BRITISH used as a noun is very rare.

• BRITISH (adjective)
  The adjective BRITISH has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Great Britain or its people or culture

  Familiarity information: BRITISH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRITISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The people of Great Britain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

British; British people; Brits

Hypernyms ("British" is a kind of...):

country; land; nation (the people who live in a nation or country)

Derivation:

British (of or relating to or characteristic of Great Britain or its people or culture)

• BRITISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Great Britain or its people or culture

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

his wife is British

Pertainym:

Great Britain (an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales)

Derivation:

British (the people of Great Britain)

 Context examples 

A unit of linear acceleration based on the U.S. Customary and British Imperial systems unit of length and equal to 2.54 centimeters per second per second.

(Inch per Second Squared, NCI Thesaurus)

A traditional unit of distance equal to 5280 feet of Old British Imperial System, used before 1959 when the unified international definitions for units of British Imperial system were established.

(Mile British, NCI Thesaurus)

Allen and Sneff are working with British officials and the Library of Congress to run non-invasive tests on the document.

(Parchment Copy of Declaration of Independence Found in Small British Town, VOA)

A traditional unit of length equal to 2.539998 centimeters, used before 1959 when the unified international definitions for units of British Imperial system were established and inch was defined as 2.54 centimeters.

(Inch British, NCI Thesaurus)

A traditional unit of volume equal to 4 Scots quarts, or approximately three British Imperial gallons, or 3.6 US liquid gallons, or 13.63 liters.

(Gallon Scotland, NCI Thesaurus)

The British groups first looked to how viruses are detected by the cell.

('Significant breakthrough' in understanding the deadly nature of pandemic influenza, University of Cambridge )

Her indifferent state of health unhappily prevents her being in town; and by that means, as I told Lady Catherine one day, has deprived the British court of its brightest ornament.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A unit of volume in British Imperial system equal to 1/60 fluid dram, 1/20 of a scruple or 0.059194 milliliter.

(Minim British, NCI Thesaurus)

On one side of the head-piece was Brissenden's photograph, on the other side was the photograph of Sir John Value, the British Ambassador.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

One morning he spent in town, and I learned from a casual reference that he had visited the British Museum.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)