Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man of Irish birth or ancestry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man born in Ireland, or one belonging to the Irish race.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man born in Ireland or of the Irish race; an Hibernian.
- noun (Naut.) a dead calm.
- noun (Naut.) See Irish reef, under
Irish , a.
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- noun A
man fromIreland .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a man who is a native or inhabitant of Ireland
Etymologies
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Examples
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But the Irishman is an idealist; he is a man who can't forget that there are great visions and great ideals, and magnificent dreams are ever before his, mind.
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'Perfectly! your Irishman is the delicatest man upon earth to the fair sex; for he always talks of their cruelty, if they are never so kind.
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The Irishman is a good friend of Montgomerie, so maybe he would say that.
How Colin Montgomerie's better side brought out the best in Europe Lawrence Donegan 2010
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An Irishman is just a Scott that can't swim or count to ten .
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I was introduced to the man I call the Irishman when I went to the bowling alley on Fort Bliss with some friends.
I’m Still Standing SHOSHANA JOHNSON 2010
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He smiled sweetly on Mr. Nogo every morning, and greeted the titled Irishman with his easy familiar nod, as though the continued sitting of this very committee was of all things to him the most desirable.
The Three Clerks 2004
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Liffey's expression of the worth of his country and its constitution rehearses an earlier speech in which he teaches the Rajah that "An Irishman is an Englishman with another name .... and we are like two arms, when one needs defence, the other naturally comes to his assistance" (172).
Through Colonial Spectacles: the Irish Vizier and the Female-Knight in James Cobb 2000
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Every Irishman is a person; and I believe that the most interesting persons are rarely the persons of importance.
The Irish Mind 1957
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The first consideration, with an Irishman, is nationality.
James Joyce 1946
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We send one member for every 40,000 people in Ireland to the Imperial Parliament, while England, Scotland and Wales send only one for every 73,000; in other words, one Irishman is as good as two Scotchmen or two Englishmen in the British House of Commons, that is, if they like to go.
The Irish Problem 1920
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