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 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, 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

  • 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, an informal empire ruled directly by the Crown on the Indian subcontinent
  • British Hong Kong, colonial Hong Kong under the British Empire
  • British Columbia, a province of Canada
  • British Airways, the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom
  • British Museum, a public museum in London
  • British Monarchy, the royal family of the United Kingdom
  • British Army, one of the armed forces of the United Kingdom
  • Brit(ish), a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch

See also

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