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Englishries

Englishries is the plural of Englishry.

Meaning of Englishry

Noun (1)

Englishry pl (plural only)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-only) Those people living in Ireland or in Wales who are of English descent (chiefly with definite article).
    • a general massacre of the Englishry1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...

Noun (2)

Englishry (countable and uncountable, plural Englishries)

  1. (uncountable) Englishness.
    • Blue-eyed women he believed there were in Kashmir, but here was the mythical Englishry of fair hair as well.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 50
  2. (historical, uncountable) The state or privilege of being an Englishman.
  3. (countable, historical) In medieval Britain, the part of a lordship or other domain inhabited by English people and governed according to English law.

Questions about Englishries

What is Englishries the plural of?
Englishries is the plural of Englishry.

Words near Englishries in the dictionary

  1. Englishness
  2. Englishnesses
  3. Englishpeople
  4. Englishperson
  5. Englishpersons
  6. Englishries
  7. Englishry
  8. Englishtown
  9. Englishwoman
  10. Englishwomen
  11. Englishy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Englishries (page history and authors); Englishry (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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