British Explained

British may refer to:

Peoples, culture, and language

• British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
• British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture
• British English, the English language as spoken and written in the Great Britain or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles
• Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group
• Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British)
  • Common Brittonic, an ancient language

Other uses

• Brit(ish), a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch
• People or things associated with:
  • Great Britain, an island
  • British Isles, an island group
  • United Kingdom, a sovereign state
  • British Empire, a historical global colonial empire
  • Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922)
• British Raj, colonial India under the British Empire
• British Hong Kong, colonial Hong Kong under the British Empire
• British Columbia, a province of Canada
• British Museum, a public museum in London
• British Monarchy, the royal family of the United Kingdom
• British Army, the armed forces of the United Kingdom

See also

• Terminology of the British Isles
• Alternative names for the British
• English (disambiguation)
• Britannic (disambiguation)
• British Isles
• Brit (disambiguation)
• Briton (disambiguation)
• Britain (disambiguation)
• Great Britain (disambiguation)
• British Empire
• United Kingdom (disambiguation)