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english is a noun and adjective meaning "an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries". It carries 6 recorded senses.
an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
the people of England
the discipline that studies the English language and literature
of or relating to or characteristic of England or its culture or people
“English history”
“the English landed aristocracy”
“English literature”
of or relating to the English language
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for english come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.