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Welshman

Welshman

3 3.2
A man from Wales
  • noun
  • /ˈwɛlʃmən/
: gales
  • The 8-hour day and 40-hour week can be traced to Welshman Robert Owen and the early 19th-century socialist movement.
  • an old Welshman
  • a young Welshman

So we one day we got a lift off a farmer, nice Welshman called Glenn, even remember his name.

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Examples

  • No, I am a Welshman.

  • Gavin is an open-source fan, a gadget lover, and a proud Welshman.

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  • - And to think they wanted to put that Welshman in the part.

  • The Welshman, they were bringing him to you.

  • You should try telling that to the Welshman.

  • We have to find this phony Welshman and his group.

  • Speaker, as a proud Welshman and a proud Brit, I say come on, England too.

  • Ian Rush is Liverpool's star striker and a Welshman.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • THOMAS, a harsh, ruddy-faced Welshman, the School of Mines instructor, downs a drink, pours another, and looks up at PK.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • The young Welshman shared stories of his homeland at the festival.

Synonyms

Welsh
vsWelshman
3 1.6

A person from Wales

is male specific and refers only to men from Wales
Cymry
vsWelshman
1 9.8

People from Wales who speak Welsh and keep shared traditions

is male specific and denotes a single man rather than the group
Cambrian
vsWelshman
  • Archaic
1 9.9

A person who comes from Wales, often mentioned in older books or history

is the general everyday term rather than a historical or literary form

Surface Forms

Welshman singular
Welshmen plural

Morphology

Welshman = Welsh + man (transparent) = Welsh + man

The meaning is directly the combination of 'Welsh' (from Wales) + 'man' (adult male), so learners can derive it.

Etymology

Welshman is simply Welsh + man: Welsh names the people of Wales and man means a male person, so a Welshman is 'a man from Wales'.