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Englishman vs Southron - What's the difference?

englishman | southron |

As nouns the difference between englishman and southron

is that englishman is a male native or inhabitant of england; a man who is english by birth, descent, or naturalization while southron is (historical) someone from the american south, that is, from the confederate states of america.

englishman

English

Noun

(Englishmen)
  • A male native or inhabitant of England; a man who is English by birth, descent, or naturalization.
  • * c. 1541 , The Chronicle of Calais , London 1846:
    • 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 .
  • * 1931 , (Noel Coward), "Mad Dogs and Englishmen":
    • In Bangkok at twelve o'clock they foam at the mouth and run, / But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.
  • * 2003 , Richard Schickel, "Sweet Agonies of Affection", Time , 3 Nov 2003:
    • He has his dark -- well, darkish -- side under control. Which is to say that he is an Englishman , well practiced in masking pain and absurdity and descents into sheer goofiness with mannerly behavior, sly irony and stiff upper lips.
  • (UK) The grey partridge (in opposition to the Frenchman, ie the red-legged partridge).

    • Coordinate terms

    * (male native of England) Englishwoman, Irishman, Scotsman, Welshman, Briton

    southron

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (archaic) Southern.
  • (archaic, Scotland) English, from England.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A southerner, someone from the south.
  • (archaic, Scotland) An Englishman.
  • A Lowlander, a Scottish person from south of the Highlands.
  • (someone from the Southern US)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1890, author=T. C. DeLeon, title=Four Years in Rebel Capitals, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=To the natural impressibility of the southron , the Louisianian adds the enthusiasm of the Frenchman. }}