British

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British may refer to:

Peoples, culture, and language

  • British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
  • British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture
  • British English, the English language as spoken and written in the Great Britain or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles
  • Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group
  • Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British)
    • Common Brittonic, an ancient language

Other uses

  • Brit(ish), a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch
  • People or things associated with:
  • British Raj, colonial India under the British Empire
  • British Hong Kong, colonial Hong Kong under the British Empire
  • British Columbia, a province of Canada
  • British Museum, a public museum in London
  • British Monarchy, the royal family of the United Kingdom
  • British Army, the armed forces of the United Kingdom

See also

Topics referred to by the same term
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