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Briton

//ˈbɹɪt.ən// noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    characteristic of or associated with the Britons wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    An inhabitant of Great Britain, particularly (historical) a Celt from the area of Roman Britain or (obsolete) a Welshman; a British person.

    "At last the Saxons had killed nearly all the Britons, and the few who remained took refuge in the mountains, in that part of the country which we now call Wales, and in Cornwall."

  2. 2
    an inhabitant of southern Britain prior to the Anglo-Saxon invasions wordnet
  3. 3
    A citizen of the United Kingdom or (historical, obsolete) its overseas empire.

    "...when these hateful termes of Scottes and Englishemen, shalbe abolisshed, and blotted oute for euer, and we shal al agre in the onely title and name of Britons..."

  4. 4
    a native or inhabitant of Great Britain wordnet

Etymology

From Old French Breton, from Latin Brittō. Doublet of Breton and Brython.

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