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/ˈɪŋglɪʃ/ /ˈɪŋlɪʃ/ Listen

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adjective

Of or relating to or characteristic of England or its culture or people. "The English landed aristocracy" , "English literature"

Of or relating to the English language.

noun

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. Synonym: English language.

The people of England. Synonym: English people.

The discipline that studies the English language and literature.

(sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist. Synonym: side.

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"English" Quotes from Famous Books

... have borne comparatively little spiritual fruit. Large contact and concentrated living bring out native genius, but mixture with an inferior stock can only tend to obliterate it. The Jews, the Greeks, the Romans, the English were never so great as when they confronted other nations, reacting against them and at the same time, perhaps, adopting their culture; but this greatness fails inwardly whenever contact ...

— The Life of Reason • George Santayana

... the Malay boatmen smiled, ceased rowing, and said in fairly good English, but with a peculiar accent: "Few; not many. Shrimps when the ...

— The Rajah of Dah • George Manville Fenn

... discipline, that he cannot withstand thy unjust invasion? March hence presently, and to-morrow, some time of the day, retreat unto thine own country, without doing any kind of violence or disorderly act by the way; and pay withal a thousand besans of gold (which, in English money, amounteth to five thousand pounds), for reparation of the damages thou hast done in this country. Half thou shalt pay to-morrow, and the other half at the ides of May next coming, leaving with us in the ...

— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... the highway and the bustle of animal life; with horses that really gallop, and dogs that really bark; with charming male and female figures in the most attractive old-world attire; with happy laughter and artless waggeries; with a hundred intimate details of English domesticity that are pushed just far enough back to lose the hardness of their outline in a softening haze of retrospect. There has been nothing more tragic in your travels than a sprained ankle or an interrupted ...

— De Libris: Prose and Verse • Austin Dobson

... pointed to me. "Look at Mr. Philip, sir—and you will allow him one merit. He is capable of showing it, when he knows he has disgraced himself." Without intending it, I am sure, my father infuriated me; he looked as if he believed her. Out came one of the smallest and strongest words in the English language before I could stop it: "Mrs. Tenbruggen, you lie!" The illustrious Rubber dropped my father's hand—she had been operating on him all the time—and showed us that she could assert her dignity when circumstances called for the exertion: "Either your son or I, ...

— The Legacy of Cain • Wilkie Collins

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