(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.
Englishwoman
Definition:
(n.) Fem. of Englishman.
Example Sentences:
(1) The day was perfect, the centre court was packed, the King and Queen were present, and Miss Round won her first Wimbledon singles title, the first Englishwoman to gain that honour since 1926.
(2) Casa 579 is only a guesthouse, but it has views better than any five-star hotel – and the added benefit of Teresa, a dynamic Englishwoman who prides herself on steering her guests away from the tourists traps towards the real Rio.
(3) "No Englishman, or Englishwoman, will need reminding of that moment," read a profile of David Beckham after his disgrace in 1998 , but today I suspect some will.
(4) J K Rowling, perhaps the greatest living Englishwoman, read the opening lines of J M Barrie's Peter Pan while giant puppets loomed over the young patients, reminding us of the scary joys of Captain Hook, Cruella de Vil, the Childcatcher and Rowling's own Voldemort.
(5) The most famous automatic writer was Pearl Curran, an American who knocked out more than 5,000 poems, novels and plays while claiming to be channelling the spirit of Patience Worth, a 17th-century Englishwoman.
(6) One set of texts from an Englishwoman named Natasha shows increasing anxiety as the hours pass, finally ending in relief when he texts he is OK.
(7) Chamcha, whose trajectory is apparently meant to be an arch commentary on the circumstances of Rushdie's own life, migrates to Britain young, becomes an actor and marries an Englishwoman called Pamela Lovelace.
(8) I put it to Hunt that a key factor may be that she is an Australian, disguised as an Englishwoman, which accounts for her get-up-and-go and positivity, which are distinctive and a trifle unnerving.
(9) He married an Englishwoman in the summer before pledging his professional future to the club by signing a contract extension to 2019.
(10) Fifty years ago, a slender young Englishwoman was walking through a rainforest reserve at Gombe, in Tanzania, when she came across a dark figure hunched over a termite nest.
(11) She could hardly talk about what she saw there, going into the hospital, but she told me that the men were crying out seeing an Englishwoman, a civilian.
(12) Crimes committed by whites against Indians attracted minimal punishment; an Englishmen who shot dead his Indian servant got six months’ jail time and a modest fine (then about 100 rupees), while an Indian convicted of attempted rape against an Englishwoman was sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment.
(13) Sanders has lived in Oxford since 1968, having moved to Britain after falling in love with “a beautiful Englishwoman”, Margaret, to whom he was married until she died in 1983.
(14) In their disorientating, echoing blackness, the Englishwoman Adela Quested believes she has been assaulted by her Indian host.
(15) Abdullah Jamal (formerly Jermaine Lindsay) was married to a white Englishwoman; Mohammad Sidique Khan was a graduate who helped children of all religions with learning difficulties; Hasib Hussain was sent to Pakistan only after he "went a bit wild" with drinking and swearing; Shehzad Tanweer was a graduate who used to help at his father's fish-and-chip shop.
(16) Another portrays an English memsahib haplessly attempting to transcribe a traditional song; in a pointed metaphor for colonial rule, the music will not obey the iron-clad barlines of western notation, to the Englishwoman's frustration and the audience's delight.
(17) I’m a sceptical Englishwoman in my 30s, nervously clutching a Department of Transport-issued helmet; he’s an upbeat Californian in his 20s who works in marketing and admissions at New York University.