half-English

British  

adjective

1. having partial English citizenship through the nationality of one parent

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Example Sentences

They saw some clips of me online and realised I was half-English.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

Violette Szabo, a half-French, half-English widow and mother, joined Britain’s Special Operations Executive and was trained as a saboteur and spy before parachuting into France to fight with the resistance.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2022

It’s a half-English, half-Hindi outlier on a soundtrack otherwise populated by Bruce Springsteen songs — the closest Bruce analog would be a mix of “Drive All Night,” “Secret Garden” and something from Bollywood.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2019

At 25, Sofia is a half-English, half-Greek anthropology student who works in a London cafe called the Coffee House but mostly tends to the petulant demands of her mother, Rose.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2016

An even more radical rejection of complexity can be heard in the piano miniatures of Erik Satie, Faure’s eccentric, half-English contemporary.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall