Anglo-Saxˈon noun

1. Old English, the language before 1100 or 1150AD
2. Plain English, often implying forthright use of English words that are usually taboo in ordinary conversation (informal)
3. One of the Germanic settlers in England and Scotland, including Angles, Saxons and Jutes, or one of their descendants
4. A Saxon of England, distinguished from the Old Saxons of the Continent
5. A white native speaker of English

1. Of or relating to the Anglo-Saxons or their language
2. Of or relating to Britain and N America, as opposed to continental Europe

Anglo-Saxˈondom noun

English /ingˈglish/

1. Belonging to England or its inhabitants
2. (loosely, and deprecated by the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish) British
3. Of or relating to the English language

1. The English people (as pl)
2. A Germanic language spoken in the British Isles, USA, most parts of the Commonwealth, etc
3. 14-point type (printing)
4. Side (N American; snooker, etc)

1. To translate into English (archaic or rare)
2. To make English or anglicize
3. To influence with English characteristics, customs, etc
4. To impart side to (N American; snooker, etc)

Engˈlander noun (facetious, as though a mistaken transl of eg Ger Engländer)

An Englishman

Engˈlified adjective

1. Like the English of England in speech or ways
2. Affecting an English manner of speaking (Scot)

Engˈlisher noun

1. A translator into English
2. An Englishman (Scot)

Engˈlishism noun (US; rare)

1. An expression or idiom originating in or found only in the English of England or Britain
2. A custom or practice peculiar to England
3. Great admiration or enthusiasm for England and its customs, etc

Engˈlishness noun

Engˈlishry noun

1. The fact of being English
2. In Ireland, the population of English descent

English bond noun

A bricklayer's bond of alternate courses of headers and stretchers (cf Flemish bond)

English breakfast noun

A cooked breakfast, usu including bacon, eggs and tomatoes (cf continental breakfast)

English disease noun

The British disease

English flute noun

The recorder

English horn noun

The cor anglais

Engˈlishman or Engˈlishwoman noun

A native or naturalized inhabitant of England

English mustard noun

A hot, bright-yellow kind of mustard (the condiment)

English rose noun

An English girl with a fair complexion and regarded as classically beautiful

English sickness same as English disease above.

English sweat noun (old)

The sweating sickness (qv under sweat)

Basic English see under base¹

Early English

1. Often used vaguely, eg for early Middle English or for Middle and early Modern English
2. The form of Gothic architecture in which the pointed arch was first employed in Britain, succeeding the Norman towards the end of the 12c and merging into the Decorated at the end of the 13c (Early-English adjective)

in plain English

In clear, simple language

little Englander

1. A 19c British opponent of British imperialism and empire-building
2. A late-20c or early-21c British supporter of the view that Britain should retain its individual national identity rather than become part of a more integrated Europe

little Englanderism or Englandism

Middle English

The English used in Britain from about 1100 or 1150AD until about 1500

Modern English

The English used in Britain from about 1500 onwards

Old English

1. A kind of black-letter typeface (printing)
2. The English language up to about 1100 or 1150AD (formerly, and still popularly, called Anglo-Saxon)

presentment of Englishry (historical)

The offering of proof that a person murdered belonged to the English race, to escape the fine levied on the hundred or township for the murder of a Norman

Young England see under young