briton

1. 1.

   characteristic of or associated with the Britons

   “the Briton inhabitants of England”

Other forms of briton

plural

britons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about briton

What does briton mean?

briton means "a native or inhabitant of Great Britain". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in briton?

briton has 2 syllables: brit-on. The stress falls on "brit". In IPA it is /ˈbɹɪtən/.

What is another word for briton?

Close synonyms include Britisher, Brit. 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 briton a common word?

briton is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with briton?

2 words rhyme with briton. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.