English
/ˈɪŋ.(ɡ)lɪʃ/ adjective A1- Of or pertaining to England.
- English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England. · Those immigrants Anglicised their names to make them sound more English.
- Of or pertaining to the people of England (e.g. Englishmen and Englishwomen).
- Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure. · an English ton
- Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.
- Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors on a camera.
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Moody Spurgeon says he feels it in his bones that he is going to fail in English history.
By the English printers, long before, in London town.
All the little letters did the English printer set;
Ay, and while you slept, a baby, over all the English lands
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