British may refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
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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.
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British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture
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British English, the English language as spoken and written in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, more broadly, throughout the British Isles
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Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group
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Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British)
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Common Brittonic, an ancient language
Other uses
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Great Britain, an island
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British Isles, an island group
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United Kingdom, a sovereign state
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, Crown colony, colonies, protectorates, League of Nations mandate, mandates, and other Dependent territory, territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It bega ...
, a historical global colonial empire
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Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922)
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British Raj, colonial India under the British Empire
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British Hong Kong
Hong Kong was under British Empire, British rule from 1841 to 1997, except for a Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, brief period of Japanese occupation during World War II from 1941 to 1945. It was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1841 ...
, colonial Hong Kong under the British Empire
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British Columbia, a province of Canada
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British Airways, the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom
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British Museum, a public museum in London
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British Monarchy, the royal family of the United Kingdom
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British Army, one of the armed forces of the United Kingdom
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Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch
See also
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Terminology of the British Isles
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Alternative names for the British
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English (disambiguation)
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Britannic (disambiguation)
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British Isles
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Brit (disambiguation)
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Briton (disambiguation)
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Britain (disambiguation)
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Great Britain (disambiguation)
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, Crown colony, colonies, protectorates, League of Nations mandate, mandates, and other Dependent territory, territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It bega ...
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United Kingdom (disambiguation)
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