English

During the war of 1914–18 the English working class were in contact with foreigners to an extent that is rarely possible. The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans, except the Germans, whose courage they admired.

1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:

Those immigrants Anglicised their names to make them sound more English.

Honest, honest, English is just a language of confusions.

2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 187:

en:of or pertaining to the English language

English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.

Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

en:of or pertaining to the people of England

Of or pertaining to the people of England (e.g. Englishmen and Englishwomen).

an English ton

en:of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure

Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.

(Amish) Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.

Coordinate term: Chinese

(film, television) Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors on a camera.

en-adj

English (comparative more English, superlative most English)

more English (comparative)
most English (superlative)
Inglish (alternative dated rare)
Englishe (alternative archaic)
english (alternative US)
english (alternative dated rare)

англи́йски

of or pertaining to an Englishman, Englishwoman, the English

brita

From Middle English Englisch, English, Inglis, from Old English Englisċ (“of the Angles; English”), from Engle (“the Angles”), a Germanic tribe + -isċ; equivalent to Engle + -ish. Compare West Frisian Ingelsk, Scots Inglis (older ynglis), Dutch Engels, Danish engelsk, Old French Englesche (whence French anglais), German englisch, Spanish inglés, all ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow”) (compare Sanskrit अंहु (áṃhu, “narrow”), अंहस् (áṃhas, “anxiety, sin”), Latin angustus (“narrow”), Old Church Slavonic ѫзъкъ (ǫzŭkŭ, “narrow”)).


English

Cricket—a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

1979, Stormont Mancroft, Bees in Some Bonnets, p. 175

The English and the ROTW have a long history of conflict, periodically interrupted for tea.

(in the plural) The people of England, e.g., Englishmen and Englishwomen.

(Amish, in the plural) The non-Amish, people outside the Amish faith and community.

Sorry, my English isn't very good. I wish I had better English.

en:degree of facility with the English language

(uncountable) Facility with the English language, ability to employ English correctly and idiomatically.

What's the English for 'à peu près'? It depends: how is it being used?

(uncountable) A particular instance of the English language, including:

The English term or expression for some thing or idea.

The specs are all correct, but the English in the instructions isn't as clear as it should be.

The English text or phrasing of some spoken or written communication.

Thank you, doctor. Now, please say that again in English.

Data: I have completed my analysis of the anomaly. It appears to be a multi-phasic temporal convergence in the space-time continuum.
Dr. Crusher: In English, Data.

1994, Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore, “All Good Things...”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 7, episodes 25-26, Brent Spiner and Gates McFadden (actors):

A clear and readily understandable expression of some idea in English.

I loved reading until 7th grade English.

This reflects that in English, students learn a range of text types, such as procedures, editorials, poetry, and not just academic essays.

2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109:

Synonym of language arts, the class dedicated to improving primary and secondary school students' mastery of English and the material taught in such classes.

language arts

(printing, dated) A size of type between pica (12 point) and great primer (18 point), standardized as 14-point.

You are putting too much English on the ball.

(uncountable, Canada, US) Alternative form of english.

en-noun

English (countable and uncountable, plural English or Englishes)

English (plural)
Englishes (plural)
Inglish (alternative dated rare)
Englishe (alternative archaic)
english (alternative US)
english (alternative dated rare)

անգլերեն

one's ability to employ the English language


English

English is spoken here as an unofficial language and lingua franca.

How do you say ‘à peu près’ in English?

She speaks English, French, and German. English is her first language.

English is a world language: it is widely used in dozens of countries and is studied in at least a hundred more.

Westerners have never quite understood the reverence in Japan for fugu, alternately known in English as puffer fish, globefish or blowfish, of the family Tetraodontidae.

2020 December 4, Ligaya Mishan, “The Appealing and Potentially Lethal Delicacy That Is Fugu”, in The New York Times Style Magazine:

Each written word when spoken is mutually incomprehensible between a Mandarin speaker in Beijing and a Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong. If you think that’s odd, consider our number system: the symbol “9” is universally recognized but it’s pronounced “nine” in English and “devet” in Slovenian.

2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN:

Commonwealth of Nations
Commonwealth of Nations

The language that developed in England and is now spoken in the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and many other parts of the world.

I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English I spoke to my mother, which for lack of a better term might be described as “simple”; the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”; my translation of her Chinese, which could certainly be described as “watered down”; and what I imagined to be her translation of her Chinese if she could speak in perfect English, her internal language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure.

2003, Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue”, in The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, page 278:

A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English.

English language, literature, composition as a subject of study

An English surname originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain.

A number of places in the United States:

A town, the county seat of Crawford County, Indiana; named for Indiana statesman William Hayden English.

unincorporated community
unincorporated community

An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Kentucky.

An unincorporated community in Brazoria County, Texas.

Red River County
Red River County#English

An unincorporated community in Red River County, Texas.

An unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia.

en-prop

English (countable and uncountable, plural Englishes)

English (surname)
English#Places in the United States

Englishes (plural)
Inglish (alternative dated rare)
Englishe (alternative archaic)
english (alternative US)
english (alternative dated rare)

→ Cherokee: ᎩᎵᏏ (gilisi)

→ Maori: Ingarihi

q

→ Ukrainian: і́нгліш (ínhliš) (referring to the English language as a school subject)

акӑлчан чӗлхи

ak̬ălč̬an č̬ĕlh̬i


English

[…] severe prohibuit viris suis tum misceri feminas in consuetis suis menstruis, etc. I spare to English this which I have said.

Mamma is an adaptation of a French farce by Mr. Sydney Grundy, made in the time when his chief claim to recognition as a playwright lay in his ingenious aptitude for Englishing the un-Englishable.

1901, The Speaker, the Liberal Review - Volume 3, page 654:

Here, the poems are Englished by twelve different translators

2011, Colin Cheney, 'Where Should I Start with Tomas Tranströmer?'

(transitive; archaic or rare) To translate, adapt or render into English.

While the man Clive—he fought Plassy, spoiled the clever foreign game,
Conquered and annexed and Englished!

1880, Robert Browning, “Clive”, in Dramatic Idylls: Second Series, page 12, lines 7–8:

(transitive; archaic or rare) To make English; to claim for England.

en-verb

English (third-person singular simple present Englishes, present participle Englishing, simple past and past participle Englished)

Englishes (present singular third-person)
Englishing (participle present)
Englished (participle past)
Englished (past)
Inglish (alternative dated rare)
Englishe (alternative archaic)
english (alternative US)
english (alternative dated rare)