English people
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- noun
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ingleses
- Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English people in England and the American colonies believed in the importance of maternal love.
- English people think
Her name was Catherine, and she was one of those English people, very proud of her.
- Her name was Catherine, and she was one of those English people, very proud of her.
- And then I just found that a lot of Scottish people online hate English people, right?
- The five families in America and my dad and Joe were very friendly with the English people.
- I I think that English people for the most part, make me nervous.
- And they compared them to, to to to to English people in London.
- They've learned to all stick together, which is something else English people don't do.
- And we had a few Poms in the team, obviously English people.
- Like there's an English soul that only true English people have.
Examples
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Hecker confidently reckoned, "God is bestowing special graces upon the English people in our day," preparing their return to Catholicism in England and the United States.
Academic text (2003) -
But in the above passage, he displays real affection for the English people and their culture.
Blog text (10) -
I was here in England for six years and I respect English people a lot because they are very polite and they respect serious, serious.
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Her name was Catherine, and she was one of those English people, very proud of her.
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We act with strangers more like English people would act with loved ones, in some cases.
Blog text (25) -
Cricket was the sport of the English people and the sugar estates then.
Academic text (1994) -
Why did English people in 1657 think there was religious freedom in Holland?
Academic text (2010) -
The experience with the Scottish invasion had changed Cromwell and he was no longer certain that the English people could trust their own sovereign.
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She's the lone outsider in a tour group of elderly English people.
Fiction book (2000) -
The English people have a rich cultural heritage, including literature, music, and traditions.
Synonyms
People who come from England
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'English' (pertaining to England) with 'people' (members of a population); the phrase simply denotes people from England. This adjective+noun demonym pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard composition, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand the MWE.
Etymology
English people comes from an old tribe called the Angles, and their name 'Englisc' meant 'of the Angles'. So the word English plus people came to mean 'the people of England'.