OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2553

Briton

/ˈbɹɪt.ən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
britano • británica • británico • reinounidense
An inhabitant of Great Britain, particularly (historical) a Celt from the area of Roman Britain or (obsolete) a Welshman; a British person.
At last the Saxons had killed nearly all the Britons, and the few who remained took refuge in the mountains, in that part of the country which we now call Wales, and in Cornwall.
He writhed for twenty minutes under the flowery and eulogistic periods of the president, and rose himself in the state of confused indignation which the Briton feels when he is pub…
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