british

Questions about british

What does british mean?

british means "the people of Great Britain". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in british?

british has 2 syllables: brit-ish. The stress falls on "brit". In IPA it is /ˈbɹɪtɪʃ/.

What is another word for british?

Close synonyms include British people, Brits. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is british a common word?

british is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.