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Brit

Brit

280 6.5
A person from Britain
  • noun
  • /brɪt/
  • Informal
translation icon : británico
  • Instead, I was a poor Brit in New York, a scholarship student among debutantes.

Furthermore, this Brit chose not to have a kid.

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Examples

  • Sometimes I don't understand the Brits, particularly the ones who can afford it.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • I remember being in Cannes when it went through and every Brit was just dazed.

  • And I look as a Brit by birth.

  • We got the the most famous Brit in the world in Canada somehow.

  • Surely no way back for the Brit now.

  • Furthermore, this Brit chose not to have a kid.

  • I thought you Brits like this kind of thing.

  • We're just another Brit who just gets mugged off by the government and that's kind of it.

  • Remember, Mr. Hannan is a Brit and doesn't quite get us, brilliant as he is.

    Blog text (4)
  • As a proud Brit, she enjoys celebrating traditional holidays like Trooping the Colour.

Synonyms

Briton
vsBrit
19 3.9

A person who lives in Great Britain

is the informal, casual way to say the same idea
Britisher
vsBrit
  • Archaic
1 8.3

A person from Great Britain

is the informal, casual way to say the same idea

Surface Forms

Brit singular
Brits plural

Etymology

The word Brit is a short, friendly form of Briton and Britain, which were old names for the island and its people. So a Brit is simply someone from 'Britain'.