What's the difference between briton and englishman?

Briton


Definition:

  • (a.) British.
  • (n.) A native of Great Britain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All the wounded Britons have been repatriated , including four severely injured people who were brought back by an RAF C-17 transport plane.
  • (2) The others were two Britons, Mark Cox and John Barrett (now both BBC commentators) and the US player Jim McManus.
  • (3) Pioneers (41% of Britons) are global, networked, like innovation and believe in the importance of ethics.
  • (4) In an official response to the EU Brexit negotiating team, British in Europe and the3million have said that if May’s proposal is adopted it would represent a “severe reduction of the current rights” enjoyed by Britons in Europe.
  • (5) The Britons of 2014 are as poor as they were in 2005.
  • (6) In the clip – believed to be the first footage of a Briton fighting for the militants in Iraq rather than Syria – he urges others to take up arms and join the growing ranks of foreign fighters.
  • (7) Britons certainly divided over that strange, heady Diana week in 1997 and again over how to mark the millennium.
  • (8) His comments come the day after David Cameron revealed that an unprecedented aerial strike in Syria had killed two Britons fighting alongside Islamic State (Isis).
  • (9) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
  • (10) For many months, MI5 and police counter-terrorist officers have been warning of the potential threat posed by Britons returning from Syria or Iraq.
  • (11) Britons at the top of the social ladder are by far the most likely to have lied in order to get a job; 41% of social grade A have lied on a job application.
  • (12) By encouraging (in effect, subsidising) ever more Britons to holiday abroad, extra runway capacity would probably harm rather than help the balance of payments.
  • (13) The activists come from 18 different countries and include six Britons.
  • (14) Both MI5 and me had our lawyers present.” In the meeting Begg said MI5 were concerned about “the possibility of Britons in Syria being radicalised and returning to pose a potential threat to national security.
  • (15) However, his biggest priority will be to create and save jobs, amid predictions that by 2010 one in 10 Britons will be unemployed.
  • (16) The former concept has been smashed by the digital economy, which helped enable 1.2 million Britons to switch banks last year.
  • (17) The announcement came after Philip Hammond , the foreign secretary, acknowledged on Wednesday that a Briton appeared to be responsible for the killing, which was shown in a video released by Islamic State (Isis) militants.
  • (18) Among Britons classified as middle-class it was 69%; among those labelled working-class, 81%.
  • (19) In fact, a fifth of Britons work long-term in low-skilled jobs.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Oliver on Donald Trump: ‘A Klan-backed misogynist internet troll’ Hang on a minute: who am I as a Briton to interfere in the internal affairs of a foreign country?

Englishman


Definition:

  • (n.) A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He becomes the first Englishman to make a permanent move to Serie A since Jay Bothroyd signed for Perugia in 2003.
  • (2) Source: Reuters Dirty old river If the notion of an Englishman’s castle as his home is being challenged on the Levels, where scores of properties flooded, the bursting of the Thames from its banks a few hundred yards from the royal castle of Windsor has raised the issue to a new height.
  • (3) As if an Englishman would count his life a success because he had a mobile phone and lived in a country where a government transitioned peacefully in a democratic election.
  • (4) This is some "Englishman's castle", merely the direct result of half a century of political bribery .
  • (5) The opening lines of Hill's first completed (but second to be published) novel, Fell of Dark (1971), were clearly prophetic: "I possess the Englishman's usual ambivalent attitude to the police.
  • (6) The Italian has so far been unable to take up Clement’s offer to pay a visit to Derby’s training ground but the Englishman says the pair will probably speak before the United game so Clement can find out whether a manager who has won the Champions League three times has any words of advice, though he reckons he knows what he will hear.
  • (7) Gove has accused the Germans of adhering to such social Darwinist ideas, but he should know that these were widespread across Europe, and that one of their fullest enunciations came from Herbert Spencer, an Englishman.
  • (8) Gary Neville insisted that he had no intention of resigning as Valencia manager after his side was hammered 7-0 at the Camp Nou by Barcelona on Wednesday night – but the club’s sporting director Suso García Pitarch described it as “one of the worst results in our history” and evaded questions about the Englishman’s future at the Mestalla.
  • (9) This report presents a case of this in an Englishman who became ill whilst working the tropics.
  • (10) Through Connolly, he met George Orwell and Arthur Koestler , who became regular contributors; in later years, he appointed Eric Newby as the travel editor, persuaded Alan Ross to write on cricket and employed Gavin Young and the brilliant but deeply troubled John Gale, whose Clean Young Englishman is one of the finest English autobiographies.
  • (11) His view is that an Englishman should have the role and he dislikes the baggage that goes with the job.
  • (12) With allegations of cheap practice flying like left hooks around the Olympic boxing tournament, it took an Englishman and an Irishman to settle their legitimate sporting argument with admirable cordiality, Luke Campbell getting the better of John Joe Nevin to win Great Britain's 28th gold medal of the Games.
  • (13) The idea was that Hope had used Flashman's adventures to invent the tale of Rudolf Rassendyll, the Englishman who was the double of the King of Ruritania.
  • (14) Or she could believe that if she does what she is told she will be in a relationship with an Englishman and that somehow this "affair" (if that is not too romantic a word) will allow her to stay in the country.
  • (15) As an Englishman resident in Greece who has also spent 20 happy years working in Germany I feel ashamed of the mean-minded attitude of the German government.
  • (16) I’ve been careful to avoid mentioning Beckham directly, but Keane has no doubt about the influence of the Englishman’s move here in 2007.
  • (17) An Englishman’s home is his castle” – the idea that an obsession with home ownership is somehow in our national DNA – is one of them.
  • (18) An Englishman's home is his castle, and that castle now includes a moat to keep the peasants out.
  • (19) Dahlin also says the picture of Hodgson as a mild-mannered coach who rarely raises his voice is a myth, and players who crossed the Englishman would be told in no uncertain terms who was in charge.
  • (20) Elements of it read like a bad airport novel: the upper-class Englishman with links to former spies, the Dragon Lady armed with poison, the charismatic but ruthless leader and the maverick police chief.

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