Britons

Noun

Briton (plural Britons)

1. An inhabitant of Great Britain, particularly (historical) a Celt from the area of Roman Britain or (obsolete) a Welshman; a British person.
   • At last the Saxons had killed nearly all the Britons, and the few who remained took refuge in the mountains, in that part of the country which we now call Wales, and in Cornwall.1905, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Our Island Story, page 59

   Synonyms:

   the British, Brit, Britisher, limey, pom, pommy, Englishman, ancient Briton, Welshman

2. A citizen of the United Kingdom or (historical, obsolete) its overseas empire.
   • ...when these hateful termes of Scottes and Englishemen, shalbe abolisshed, and blotted oute for euer, and we shal al agre in the onely title and name of Britons...1547, James Harrison, An Exhortacion to the Scottes..., G v b