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Brittish

Brittish is the obsolete spelling of British.

Meaning of British

Adjective

British (comparative more British, superlative most British)

  1. (usually, with-definite-article) Of Britain.
  2. (usually, with-definite-article) Of the United Kingdom.
  3. (usually, with-definite-article) Of the Commonwealth of Nations, or the British Empire.
  4. (informal, proscribed, usually, with-definite-article) Of England; English.
  5. (historical, usually, with-definite-article) Of the ancient inhabitants of the southern part of Britain; Brythonic.
  6. (historical, usually, with-definite-article) Of the British Isles.

See all 13 meanings of British

Forms of Brittish

comparativemore Brittish
superlativemost Brittish

Questions about Brittish

What is Brittish the obsolete spelling of?
Brittish is the obsolete spelling of British.

Words near Brittish in the dictionary

  1. brittility
  2. Brittin
  3. britting
  4. Brittingham
  5. Brittinghams
  6. Brittish
  7. brittle
  8. brittle bone disease
  9. brittle cinder
  10. brittle fracture
  11. brittle fractures

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Brittish (page history and authors); British (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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