"North Briton" meaning in English

See North Briton in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: North Britons [plural]
Etymology: From north + Briton, after North Britain. Head templates: {{en-noun|head=North Briton}} North Briton (plural North Britons)
  1. (now historical) Someone from Scotland; a Scot. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Demonyms
    Sense id: en-North_Briton-en-noun-McQ8alCI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "From north + Briton, after North Britain.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "North Britons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "North Briton"
      },
      "expansion": "North Briton (plural North Britons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Demonyms",
          "orig": "en:Demonyms",
          "parents": [
            "Names",
            "People",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "About Christmas we set out for England, accompanied by a little North Briton, who lived with lord B— as his companion, and did not at all approve of our correspondence […].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone from Scotland; a Scot."
      ],
      "id": "en-North_Briton-en-noun-McQ8alCI",
      "links": [
        [
          "Scotland",
          "Scotland"
        ],
        [
          "Scot",
          "Scot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now historical) Someone from Scotland; a Scot."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "North Briton"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From north + Briton, after North Britain.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "North Britons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "North Briton"
      },
      "expansion": "North Briton (plural North Britons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Demonyms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "About Christmas we set out for England, accompanied by a little North Briton, who lived with lord B— as his companion, and did not at all approve of our correspondence […].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone from Scotland; a Scot."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Scotland",
          "Scotland"
        ],
        [
          "Scot",
          "Scot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now historical) Someone from Scotland; a Scot."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "North Briton"
}

Download raw JSONL data for North Briton meaning in English (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.