What is the difference between british and brittany?
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With the , the citizens or inhabitants of Britain collectively.
With the , the citizens or inhabitants of the United Kingdom collectively.
(history) The ancient inhabitants of the southern part of Britain before the Anglo-Saxon invasion, also called ancient Britons.
The Celtic language of the ancient Britons
The British English language.
Of Britain (meaning the British Isles)
Of the United Kingdom.
Of the Commonwealth of Nations, or the British Empire.
(historical) Of the ancient inhabitants of the southern part of Britain; Brythonic.
Of British English.
A region in north-west France.
* 1595 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry VI, part 3 , First Folio 1623, Act II, Scene VI:
*:First, will I see the Coronation, / And then to Britanny Ile crosse the Sea, / To effect this marriage, so it please my Lord.
(obsolete, chiefly, poetic) The British Isles.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.11:
*:The noble Thamis […] seem'd to stoupe afore / With bowed backe, by reason of the lode / And auncient heavy burden which he bore / Of that faire City, wherein make abode / So many learned impes, that shoote abrode, / And with their braunches spred all Britany […].
popular in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s.
* 1990 (Alice Munro), Friend of My Youth , ISBN 0679729577, page 102:
* 1999 (Andrew Pyper), Lost Girls : Chapter Ten:
British is a related term of brittany.
british
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* Brittish (archaic)Proper noun
(en proper noun)Adjective
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* (English Citations of "British")Statistics
*brittany
English
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* (female given name) Britney, BrittneyProper noun
(en proper noun)- - - - No one has family names. These girls with rooster hair I see on the streets. They pick the names. They're the mothers." "I have a granddaughter named Brittany ," Hazel said. " And I have heard of a little girl called Cappuccino." "Cappuccino! Is that true? Why don't they call one Cassaulet? Fettuccini? Alsace-Lorraine?"
- Names of the times. Borrowed from soap opera characters of prominence fifteen years ago, who have since been replaced by spiffy new models: the social-climbing Brittany'' now an unscrupulous ''Burke'', the generous ''Pamela'' a refitted, urbanized ''Parker .