british

«british» in Mova's school dictionary: from or about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (British); noun (the British)

meaning for a pupil

1) British means from or about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or its people. tree →

2) The British are the people of the UK. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and history lessons British is used for the UK's people, history and English; in language lessons British English is compared with American English (colour/color, lift/elevator). Phrases: «British English», «the British Isles», «British people».

examples

• She is British and lives in London. tree →
• British English spells «colour» with a u. tree →
• The British drink a lot of tea. tree →
• The British Isles include Great Britain and Ireland. tree →
• My cousin has a British passport. tree →
• Many British towns have a high street. tree →
• British money uses pounds and pence. tree →
• No other version is known in the British Isles. tree →

note

Always written with a capital B: British, not british. The UK includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Trap: the Republic of Ireland is not British, even though it is in the British Isles. Not every British person is English.

In the corpora

• The British royal family is the most gossiped-about family in the world.
• Bots learned from British and American English and may mix spellings like "colour" and "color".
• Banksy is a British street artist whose name and face are kept secret; his stencils often joke about war, money and power.
• People of all ages knit; the British Olympic diver Tom Daley was filmed knitting between events at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
• The common pheasant in British fields was brought from Asia long ago for hunting.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «british» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.