Englishman

Definition

A native or inhabitant of England; a man who is English by ancestry, birth, descent, or naturalisation.

Etymology

From Middle English Englishman, Inglishman, from Old English Englisċman, Englisċmon, corresponding to English + -man. Compare Old Norse Englismaðr (“Englishman”).

Example Sentences

• "the Ynglishe men had great vyctorye, for there was taken and slayne a greate nombar, and there was slayne the lorde Morley and Englishe man."
• "To see twenty or thirty female Englishmen of full regulation-size dancing a ballet, is an overpowering luxury."
• "All Englishmen, male and female, young and old, are for the purposes of this establishment considered clean."