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Webster 1913 Edition

Briton

Brit′on

,

Adj.

[AS.

bryten

Britain.]

British.

[Obs.]

Spenser.

–

Noun.

A native of Great Britain.

Webster 1828 Edition

Briton

BRIT'ON

,

Noun.

A native of Britain.

BRIT'ON

,

Adj.

British.

Definition 2025

Briton

Briton

See also: briton

English

Noun

Briton ‎(plural Britons)

An inhabitant of Great Britain
A citizen of the United Kingdom
(historical) A Celtic inhabitant of southern Great Britain at the time of the Roman conquest.

Synonyms

Brit
(of 3) Welshman

Hypernyms

North Atlanticist

Translations

inhabitant of Great Britain

Arabic: بِرِيطَانِيّ m ‎(biriṭānī), بِرِيطَانِيَّة f ‎(biriṭāniyya)
Belarusian: брытанец m ‎(brytánjec), брытанка f ‎(brytánka)
Bulgarian: британец (bg) m ‎(britanec), британка f ‎(britanka)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 英國人 (zh), 英国人 (zh) ‎(Yīngguórén)
Czech: Brit (cs) m, Britka (cs) f
Danish: brite
Dutch: Brit (nl) m
Estonian: britt (et)
Faroese: breti m
Finnish: britti (fi)
French: Britannique (fr) m, f
German: Brite (de) m, Britin (de) f
Greek: Βρετανός (el) m ‎(Vretanós), Βρετανή f ‎(Vretaní)
Hebrew: בריטי (he) m ‎(briti), בריטית f ‎(britít)
Icelandic: Breti m
Indonesian: orang Inggris
Japanese: 英国人 (ja) ‎(えいこくじん, Eikokujin)
Korean: 영국 사람 ‎(Yeongguk saram)
Latvian: brits m, briti m pl, britiete f

Lithuanian: britas (lt) m, britė (lt) f
Norwegian:

Bokmål: brite (no) m

Nynorsk: brite m
Old English: Bryt m, Brytas m pl, Bryttas m, Britons of Wales Bryttwealas m pl, Bryttwalas m pl
Polish: Brytyjczyk (pl) m, Brytyjka (pl) f
Portuguese: bretão (pt) m
Romanian: britanic (ro) m, britanică (ro) f
Russian: брита́нец (ru) m ‎(británec), брита́нка (ru) f ‎(británka)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: Бритонац m, Британац m

Roman: Britonac m, Britanac (sh) m
Slovak: Brit m, Britka f
Spanish: británico (es) m, británica (es) f, británicos (es) m pl, británicas (es) f pl
Swedish: britt (sv) c
Ukrainian: британець m ‎(brytánecʹ), британка f ‎(brytánka)
Vietnamese: người Anh
Welsh: Brython

a Celtic inhabitant of southern Britain at the time of the Roman conquest

Finnish: britti (fi), brittiläinen (fi)
German: Britannier (de) m
Latin: Britannus m

Latvian: brits m, briti f pl
Romanian: britonici m pl
Russian: бритт (ru) m ‎(britt)

Derived terms

Related terms

Brit, British, Britisher: colloquial variants of "Briton"

Czech

Noun

Briton m

Briton (historical: Celtic inhabitant of southern Britain at the time of the Roman conquest)

briton

briton

See also: Briton

Esperanto

Noun

briton

accusative singular of brito