Englishman
Americannoun
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Englishmen
plural
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a native or a naturalized citizen of England.
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an English ship.
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Englishman
before 950; Middle English; Old English Engliscman. See English, man
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Nearly 40 hours passed between United losing against Bournemouth on Sunday and the club providing clarification on Carrick's future, with the Englishman being given a chance to turn things around at Old Trafford.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
It was the first double hundred scored by an Englishman in an ODI, passing England's previous best individual score of 182 by Ben Stokes against New Zealand in 2023.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Somehow he has de-dissolved, and we find him working in an Edinburgh pub, looking like an ordinary Englishman, rather than a mechanical man.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
The only Englishman to compile a Test ton, and the scorer of 141 against India in a one-day international at Lord's, ends with nine scores below 20 from his other 15 innings.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
The poor Englishman had traveled all this way, only to be told that he should repeat what he had already done so many times.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
For Cohn, “something echoed there” in the image of the young man, who reminded him of the young, wayward Englishmen of the 1950s.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
Also, not only can you rent a bike from Mad Dogs & Englishmen, you can rent a sidecar for your dog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
When hostilities spread across the Atlantic, Englishmen in North America referred to the ensuing conflagration as King William’s War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The last Englishmen to achieve the feat were Darren Gough and Dean Headley in 1998.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
They called themselves Americans, but they were transplanted Englishmen.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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