Cornishman
noun
a native or inhabitant of Cornwall.
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cornishmannouna man who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
Cornishman
American
[kawr-nish-muhn]
/ ˈkɔr nɪʃ mən /
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Cornishmen
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cornishman
British
/ ˈkɔːnɪʃmən /
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The US-based Cornishman - arguably the world's best putter - is ranked 10 places lower at 57th, despite reaching the season-ending Tour Championship.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
England’s No 1, Michael Adams, also plays for them, and the Cornishman scored in the opening match with a fine victory over Germany’s rising star Vincent Keymer, 15.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2020
Looking back to the original Cornishman article that announced Zanzi’s death, I noticed the reporter had written that the “deadly palm oil” was identified by a national agency, Public Health England.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2017
Before then, the charismatic Cornishman had produced a series of scintillating landscape paintings of his home county, such as .
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2011
I can't tell you any more about him, save that he was a big Cornishman, rawboned, and vulgarly rich.
From A Crime of the Under-seas by Guy Newell Boothby
His involvement led to hundreds of Cornishmen going back and forth between Cornwall and Hidalgo in the coming decades.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
When he falls head over heels for the mine captain’s new wife, Polly, a cadre of crazy Cornishmen take off in hot pursuit of the poet and his muse.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
"The only thing it was missing was 5,000 Cornishmen shouting their heads off," Paver told BBC Radio Cornwall.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2021
When it comes to legendary living Cornishmen, even Padstow's Rick Stein knows his place.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2013
The Cornishmen of Cornwall.—They are Britons in blood, and until the seventeenth century, were Britons in language also.
From The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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