Briton

== English == === Etymology === From Old French Breton, from Latin Brittō. Doublet of Breton and Brython. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbɹɪt.ən/ Rhymes: -ɪtən Hyphenation: Brit‧on Homophone: Britain === Noun === Briton (plural Britons) An inhabitant of Great Britain, particularly (historical) a Celt from the area of Roman Britain or (obsolete) a Welshman; a British person. A citizen of the United Kingdom or (historical, obsolete) its overseas empire. 1760, King George III, quoted in George Rose's 1860 Diaries and Correspondence..., Vol. II, p. 189: I glory in the name of Briton. ==== Usage notes ==== Citizens of Britain are usually known collectively as the British and informally as Brits. Englishman was traditionally used whenever a formal countable demonym was required, although this is increasingly deprecated as a general term except in exclusive reference to the people of England proper. Briton has been used for modern people since the personal union of England and Scotland under James I, but some speakers continue to deprecate that sense and use it exclusively to refer to the ancient Celts in the region of Roman Britain, which covered modern England and Wales south of Caledonia. When a speaker is accustomed to calling modern Brits Britons, the former Celtic peoples are usually distinguished as the ancient Britons. ==== Synonyms ==== (native of Great Britain, subject of the UK): the British (collective); Brit (colloquial); Britisher (now chiefly Canada, US, India); limey (jocular); pom, pommy, etc. (Australia, NZ, South African slang, sometimes offensive); see Englishman (proscribed, sometimes offensive) (Celts of ancient Britain): ancient Briton (native of Wales): See Welshman ==== Hyponyms ==== Britishman (now nonstandard), Britoness (literary) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== See Britain ==== Translations ==== === References === “Briton, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. == Czech == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈbrɪton] === Noun === Briton m anim Briton (historical: Celtic inhabitant of southern Britain at the time of the Roman conquest) ==== Declension ==== This noun needs an inflection-table template.