ENGLISHMAN

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

1. a man who is a native or inhabitant of England

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

• ENGLISHMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who is a native or inhabitant of England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

English person (a native or inhabitant of England)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Englishman"):

John Bull; limey (a man of English descent)

Cornishman (a man who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall)

burgess; burgher (a citizen of an English borough)

Jacobean (any distinguished personage during the reign of James I)

Tory (a member of political party in Great Britain that has been known as the Conservative Party since 1832; was the opposition party to the Whigs)

Whig (a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories)

Holonyms ("Englishman" is a member of...):

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

The Englishman is a patient creature, but at present his temper is a little inflamed, and it would be as well not to try him too far.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Because I am an honest Englishman, and will take no more than the law allows.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is a part of an Englishman's constitution.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The Spaniards were so prodigiously afraid of him that, I tell you, sir, I was sometimes proud he was an Englishman.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When at last the door opened, both my father and I sprang to our feet, expecting to find ourselves face to face with the greatest living Englishman.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Surely it is not the custom of Englishmen to receive strangers so inhospitably.”

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It seemed to me to be obvious that this Greek girl had been carried off by the young Englishman named Harold Latimer.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I might have guessed an Englishman would know. I learned it myself in English ships.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

No, sir, Dr. Becher is an Englishman, and there isn’t a man in the parish who has a better-lined waistcoat.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is not an Englishman. He is a Russian.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)