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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A native or inhabitant of Great Britain.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A British subject or citizen in any part of the world, but more particularly a native or an inhabitant of Great Britain, especially of England.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Now used jocosely An Englishman; a subject or inhabitant of Great Britain, esp. one in the British military or naval service.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun informal A Briton.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a native or inhabitant of Great Britain

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From British + -er.

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