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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man who is a native or inhabitant of England
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Englishman" is a kind of...):
English person (a native or inhabitant of England)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Englishman"):
John Bull; limey (a man of English descent)
Cornishman (a man who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall)
burgess; burgher (a citizen of an English borough)
Jacobean (any distinguished personage during the reign of James I)
Tory (a member of political party in Great Britain that has been known as the Conservative Party since 1832; was the opposition party to the Whigs)
Whig (a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories)
Holonyms ("Englishman" is a member of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Context examples:
“Bob swore!”—as the Englishman said for “Good night”, when he first learnt French, and thought it so like English.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Professor Murray will, I am sure, excuse me if I say that he has the common fault of most Englishmen of being inaudible.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He isn't one of the cool, stiff Englishmen, but is rather peppery, for he has Scotch blood in him, as one might guess from his bonnie blue eyes.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
When I came close she bowed and said, "The Herr Englishman?"
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It is easy for us who travel into remote countries, which are seldom visited by Englishmen or other Europeans, to form descriptions of wonderful animals both at sea and land.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
As he had said, there was probably nothing at all extraordinary in the substance of the narrative itself: a wealthy Englishman's passion for a French dancer, and her treachery to him, were every-day matters enough, no doubt, in society; but there was something decidedly strange in the paroxysm of emotion which had suddenly seized him when he was in the act of expressing the present contentment of his mood, and his newly revived pleasure in the old hall and its environs.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They are all Englishmen, some of the household and others who like yourself, are captains of companies.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
None; but he was an Englishman, though of an unusual type.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“And to think that they're all Englishmen!” broke out the squire.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
And Holmes’ fears came to be realised, for from that day to this no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the sinister German, or the morose Englishman.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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