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france | british |

As a proper noun france

is france.

As an adjective british is

typically british.

france

English

(wikipedia France)

Alternative forms

* Fraunce (obsolete)

Proper noun

(Frances)
  • A country in Western Europe which borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra and Spain, is a member state of the European Union and has a population of 62 million inhabitants. Official name: French Republic ().
  • * 1998 , Shanny Peer, France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore (ISBN 0791437108), page 2:
  • Although scholars have offered different chronologies and causalities for the move toward modernity, most have resolved the paradox of the two Frances' by placing them in sequence: "diverse '''France''' gave way over time as modern centralized ' France gathered force."
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Hollande told cheering supporters in his rural fiefdom of Corrèze in south-west France' that he was best-placed to lead ' France towards change, saying the vote marked a "rejection" of Sarkozy and a "sanction" against his five years in office.}}
  • , a French poet, journalist, and novelist

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    british

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Brittish (archaic)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • 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.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.
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