Briton

Etymology
From, from or its  equivalent (🇨🇬). .

Noun

 * 1) An inhabitant of Great Britain, particularly  a Celt from the area of Roman Britain or  a Welshman.
 * 2)  A citizen of the United Kingdom or  its overseas empire.
 * 3) * 1760,, quoted in George Rose's 1860 Diaries and Correspondence..., Vol. II, p. 189:
 * I glory in the name of Briton.
 * 1)  A citizen of the United Kingdom or  its overseas empire.
 * 2) * 1760,, quoted in George Rose's 1860 Diaries and Correspondence..., Vol. II, p. 189:
 * I glory in the name of Briton.
 * 1) * 1760,, 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 and informally as. 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, 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

 * the ;  ;  ;  ;, , etc. ; see
 * Briton
 * See

Related terms

 * See Britain

Translations

 * Catalan:, , britó, britona
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: Βρεττανός
 * Latin: Britannus
 * Latvian: brits, briti
 * Marathi: ब्रिटन
 * Old English: Brett
 * Romanian: britonici
 * Russian:
 * Welsh: Brython


 * Afrikaans: Brit
 * Arabic:, بَرِيطَانِيَّة, , بِرِيطَانِيَّة
 * Armenian: բրիտանացի
 * Belarusian: брыта́нец, брыта́нка
 * Bulgarian:, брита́нка
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: brite
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: breti
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: Βρεττανός, Βρεττανίς
 * Hebrew:, בריטית
 * Icelandic: Breti
 * Indonesian: orang Inggris
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: британдық, британиялық
 * Korean: 영국 사람
 * Kyrgyz: британиялык
 * Latvian: brits, briti, britiete
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Macedonian: Британец, Британка
 * Marathi: ब्रिटन
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: brite
 * Old English: Bryt, Brytas, Bryttas, Bryttwealas, Bryttwalas
 * Persian: بریتانیایی
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, britânica
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Бритонац, Брита́нац
 * Roman: Britonac,
 * Slovak: Brit, Britka
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: британӣ
 * Ukrainian: брита́нець, брита́нка
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: người Anh
 * Welsh: Prydeiniwr

Noun

 * 1)  historical: Celtic inhabitant of southern Britain at the time of the Roman conquest