British may refer to:

Peoples, culture, and language

British people British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.: British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, w ...

, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. *

British national identity British national identity is a term referring to the sense of national identity, as embodied in the shared and characteristic culture, languages and traditions, of the British people. It comprises the claimed qualities that bind and distingui ...

, the characteristics of British people and culture *

British English British English is the set of Variety (linguistics), varieties of the English language native to the United Kingdom, especially Great Britain. More narrowly, it can refer specifically to the English language in England, or, more broadly, to ...

, the English language as spoken and written in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, more broadly, throughout the British Isles *

Celtic Britons The Britons ( *''Pritanī'', , ), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were the Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, ...

, an ancient ethno-linguistic group *

Brittonic languages The Brittonic languages (also Brythonic or British Celtic; ; ; and ) form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic languages; the other is Goidelic. It comprises the extant languages Breton, Cornish, and Welsh. The name ''Brythonic'' ...

, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language

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*People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** British Isles, an island group ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** British Empire, a historical global colonial empire ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) * British Raj, colonial India under the British Empire * British Hong Kong, colonial Hong Kong under the British Empire * British Columbia, a province of Canada * British Airways, the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom * British Museum, a public museum in London * Monarchy of the United Kingdom, British Monarchy, the royal family of the United Kingdom * British Army, one of the armed forces of the United Kingdom * ''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch

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