Englishman

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A native or inhabitant of England; a man who is English by ancestry, birth, descent, or naturalisation.

   the Ynglishe men had great vyctorye, for there was taken and slayne a greate nombar, and there was slayne the lorde Morley and Englishe man.

2. 2
   noun

   A Canadian of British descent and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to French-descended, French-speaking Canadians).

   ... others, an aging Englishman who would do anything to further his fortune ...

3. 3
   noun

   A South African of British descent, and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to Afrikaans-speaking Afrikaner South Africans).

   Fucking above your head Englishman!

4. 4
   noun

   Obsolete form of Englishman.

   In Chꝛiſt there is nether frẽch ner engliſh: but the frenchman is the engliſhmans awne ſelfe / and the engliſh the frenchmans awne ſelfe.

5. 5
   noun

   A grey partridge (in contrast with Frenchman, red-legged partridge).

Etymology

From Middle English Englishman, Inglishman, from Old English Englisċman, Englisċmon, corresponding to English + -man. Compare Old Norse Englismaðr (“Englishman”).