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# briton

«briton» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person from Britain; a British citizen** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a Briton, Britons)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) A person from Britain; a British citizen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/briton/#m1)

2) (history) One of the Ancient Britons, the Celtic people who lived in Britain before and during the time of the Romans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/briton/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons the Ancient Britons fought the Romans, lived in roundhouses and hill forts; their famous queen was Boudicca. In news it is a formal word: "a Briton has won the race". Phrases: Ancient Britons, a young Briton.

### examples

- The Ancient Britons lived in roundhouses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/briton/#x1)
- Boudicca led the Britons against the Romans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/briton/#x2)
- (formal) Three Britons were rescued from the mountain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/briton/#x3)
- A Briton won the tennis final. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/briton/#x4)
- The Romans called the people of Britain "Britanni", the Britons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/briton/#x5)
- Many Britons now live abroad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/briton/#x6)

### note

Write it with a capital B. Formal; informal is Brit; adjective is British. Not the same as Breton (a person from Brittany in France).

### In the corpora

- [Long before ancient Britons traded there, he says, Taffy and her Daddy had their home on that down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «briton» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/briton/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.