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Definition of British
British

Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants; -- sometimes restricted to the original inhabitants.

People of Great Britain.

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British Quotations

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Winston Churchill

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mohandas Gandhi

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
Stephen Leacock

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard Shaw

We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.
Richard Branson

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.
Richard Branson

My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.
Emo Philips

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Margaret Thatcher

I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.
Payne Stewart

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
Freddie Mercury

British Translations

British in Afrikaans is Brits
British in Dutch is Brits
British in French is britannique
British in German is britisch
British in Hungarian is angolok, brit, angol, britek
British in Swedish is brittisk


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