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释义

English

See also: english

English

Alternative forms

  • Inglish (dated, rare)
  • Englishe (archaic)
  • (spin / spinning): english (American)

Etymology

From Middle English Englisch, English, Inglis, from Old English Englisċ (“of the Angles; English”), from Engle (“the Angles”), a Germanic tribe +‎ -isċ; equal to Angle +‎ -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”)).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/, (non-standard) /ˈɪŋɡəlɪʃ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/, (also) /ˈɪŋlɪʃ/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɪŋɡləʃ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪŋɡlɪʃ
  • Hyphenation: Eng‧lish

Adjective

English (comparative more English, superlative most English)

  1. Of or pertaining to England.
    • 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:
      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.
  2. English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.
    • 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 187:
      Honest, honest, English is just a language of confusions.
    Those immigrants Anglicised their names to make them sound more English.
  3. Of or pertaining to the people of England (to Englishmen and Englishwomen).
    • 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 222716698:
      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.
  4. Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
    an English ton
  5. (Amish) Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.
  6. (film, television) Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors.
    Coordinate term: Chinese

Synonyms

  • (related to England): southron (Scots)

Hyponyms

  • Anglish

Translations

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Noun

English (countable and uncountable, plural English or Englishes)

  1. (in the plural) The people of England, Englishmen and Englishwomen.
    • 1979, Stormont Mancroft, Bees in Some Bonnets, p. 175:
      Cricket—a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
    The English and the ROTW have a long history of conflict, periodically interrupted for tea.
  2. (Amish, in the plural) The non-Amish, people outside the Amish faith and community.
  3. (uncountable) Facility with the English language, ability to employ English correctly and idiomatically.
    Sorry, my English isn't very good.
  4. (uncountable) A particular instance of the English language, including
    1. The English term or expression for some thing or idea.
      What's the English for 'à peu près'? It depends how is it being used?
    2. The English text or phrasing of some spoken or written communication.
      The specs are all correct, but the English in the instructions isn't as clear as it should be.
    3. A clear and readily understandable expression of some idea in English.
      • 1994, Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore, “All Good Things...”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 7, episode 25-26:
        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.
      Thank you, doctor. Now, please say that again in English.
    4. Synonym of language arts, the class dedicated to improving primary and secondary school students' mastery of English and the material taught in such classes.
      • 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:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2018.07.004, page 109:
        This reflects that in English, students learn a range of text types, such as procedures, editorials, poetry, and not just academic essays.
      I loved reading until 7th grade English.
  5. (printing, dated) A size of type between pica (12 point) and great primer (18 point), standardized as 14-point.
  6. (uncountable, Canada, US) Spin or sidespin given to a ball, especially in pool or billiards.
    You are putting too much English on the ball.

Usage notes

The use of the plural form Englishes occurred in early modern English but is only seldomly and exceptionally encountered in contemporary English. As with other collective demonyms, English is preceded by the definite article or some other determiner when referring to the people of England collectively.

Synonyms

  • (English people): southrons (Scots)
  • (type size): (German contexts) Mittel, (French contexts) Augustin

Coordinate terms

  • (sidespin): draw, follow

Translations

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Proper noun

English (countable and uncountable, plural Englishes)

  1. The language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and other parts of the world.
    English is spoken here as an unofficial language and lingua franca.
    How do you say ‘à peu près’ in English?
    Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:English language
  2. A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English.
    • 2003, Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue", in The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, page 278
      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.
  3. English language, literature, composition as a subject of study
  4. An English surname originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain.
  5. A male or female given name
  6. A town, the county seat of Crawford County, Indiana; named for Indiana statesman William Hayden English.

Usage notes

(language spoken in British Isles, North America, etc.):

  • As with the names of almost all languages, English, when it means "the English language", does not usually require an article. Hence: "Say it in plain English!"

Hypernyms

(language spoken in British Isles, North America, etc.):

  • language

Meronyms

See also Thesaurus:English language

(language spoken in British Isles, North America, etc.):

  • Standard English

(diachronic)

  • Middle English, Medieval English
    • Early Middle English, early Middle English
    • Late Middle English, late Middle English
  • New English, Modern English
    • Early New English, Early Modern English
    • Late Modern English

Derived terms

Terms derived from English (adjective and noun)
  • African American Vernacular English
  • American English
  • Anglo-English
  • Anglo-Indian English
  • Appalachian English
  • Attempto Controlled English
  • Australian English
  • babu English
  • Basic English
  • BBC English
  • Bearer English
  • Black English
  • Black English Vernacular
  • body English
  • borough English
  • British English
  • Butler English
  • Cajun English
  • Cameroonian Pidgin English
  • Canadian English
  • carabao English
  • Caribbean English
  • Chinese pidgin English
  • Chinglish
  • Classical English
  • Commonwealth English
  • double English
  • Early English
  • Early Modern English
  • Early New English
  • Edited English
  • Elizabethan English
  • Englishable
  • English as apple pie
  • English basement
  • English billiards
  • English Bluebell
  • English bond
  • English breakfast
  • English breakfast tea
  • English cadence
  • English Canada
  • English-Canadian
  • English Carrier
  • English chamomile
  • English Channel
  • English cholera
  • English cocker spaniel
  • English covenants
  • English-cut
  • English disease
  • English English
  • Englisher
  • English fever
  • English flute
  • English garden
  • English green
  • English holly
  • English horn
  • English hornist
  • Englishification
  • Englishified
  • Englishify
  • Englishish
  • Englishism
  • Englishization
  • Englishize
  • English knot
  • English Lake
  • English Latin
  • English lavender
  • English-lexifier
  • Englishly
  • Englishman
  • English-medium
  • English mercury
  • English Midlands
  • English mile
  • English muffin
  • Englishness
  • English oak
  • English Opening
  • English oregano
  • English pale
  • English partridge
  • English pea
  • English pease
  • Englishperson
  • English plantain
  • English pleasure
  • English Plus
  • English rhubarb
  • English riding
  • English rose
  • Englishry
  • English saddle
  • English Shepherd
  • English sonnet
  • English sparrow
  • English strong ale
  • English studies
  • English toffee
  • English vice
  • English walnut
  • English wheat
  • English wheel
  • Englishwoman
  • Engrish
  • Estuary English
  • Hiberno-English
  • Hong Kong English
  • I am English
  • Indian English
  • Irish English
  • Janglish
  • Japlish
  • Jewish English
  • Kenyan English
  • Kitchen English
  • Korean English
  • Late Modern English
  • Medieval English
  • Middle English
  • Modern English
  • Multicultural London English
  • Namibian English
  • New English
  • Newfoundland English
  • New Zealand English
  • Nihonglish
  • North American English
  • Northern England English
  • Northern English
  • Old English
  • old English Carrier
  • Old English Sheepdog
  • Pakistani English
  • Philippine English
  • pidgin English
  • pseudo-English
  • Rock English
  • Scottish English
  • simple English
  • Singaporean English
  • Singapore English
  • South African English
  • Southern American English
  • Standard English
  • two-line English
  • Welsh English
  • world English
Terms derived from English (noun)
  • does anyone here speak English
  • do you have a menu in English
  • do you speak English
  • how do you say … in English
  • I don't speak English
  • King's English
  • Queen's English
Terms derived from English (adjective)
  • full English
  • full English breakfast
  • non-English
  • un-English
  • white English bulldog
Terms derived from English (verb)
  • Englished

Translations

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, archaic) To translate, adapt or render into English.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:
      , page 214 (2001 reprint):
      […] severe prohibuit viris suis tum misceri feminas in consuetis suis menstruis, etc. I spare to English this which I have said.
    • 1901, The Speaker, the Liberal Review - Volume 3, page 654:
      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.
    • 2011, Colin Cheney, 'Where Should I Start with Tomas Tranströmer?':
      Here, the poems are Englished by twelve different translators

See also

  • English on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • English language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • English literature on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • English studies on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • English people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Wiktionary’s coverage of English terms

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:English.

Further reading

  • English at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • ISO 639-1 code en, ISO 639-3 code eng (SIL)
  • Ethnologue entry for English, eng ⁠

Anagrams

  • Hingles, shingle
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