# British

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**British** may refer to:

## Peoples, culture, and language

- [British people](/source/British_people), nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
- [British national identity](/source/British_national_identity), the characteristics of British people and culture
- [British English](/source/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](/source/Celtic_Britons), an ancient ethno-linguistic group
- [Brittonic languages](/source/Brittonic_languages), a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) - [Common Brittonic](/source/Common_Brittonic), an ancient language

## Other uses

- People or things associated with: - [Great Britain](/source/Great_Britain), an island - [British Isles](/source/British_Isles), an island group - [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom), a sovereign state - [British Empire](/source/British_Empire), a historical global colonial empire - [Kingdom of Great Britain](/source/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain) (1707–1800) - [United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland](/source/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland) (1801–1922)
- [British Raj](/source/British_Raj), an informal empire ruled directly by the Crown on the Indian subcontinent
- [British Hong Kong](/source/British_Hong_Kong), colonial Hong Kong under the British Empire
- [British Columbia](/source/British_Columbia), a province of Canada
- [British Airways](/source/British_Airways), the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom
- [British Museum](/source/British_Museum), a public museum in London
- [British Monarchy](/source/Monarchy_of_the_United_Kingdom), the royal family of the United Kingdom
- [British Army](/source/British_Army), one of the armed forces of the United Kingdom
- *[Brit(ish)](/source/Brit(ish))*, a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch

## See also

- [Terminology of the British Isles](/source/Terminology_of_the_British_Isles)
- [Alternative names for the British](/source/Alternative_names_for_the_British)
- [English (disambiguation)](/source/English_(disambiguation))
- [Britannic (disambiguation)](/source/Britannic_(disambiguation))
- [British Islands](/source/British_Islands)
- [British Isles](/source/British_Isles)
- [Brit (disambiguation)](/source/Brit_(disambiguation))
- [Briton (disambiguation)](/source/Briton_(disambiguation))
- [Britain (disambiguation)](/source/Britain_(disambiguation))
- [Great Britain (disambiguation)](/source/Great_Britain_(disambiguation))
- [British Empire](/source/British_Empire)
- [United Kingdom (disambiguation)](/source/United_Kingdom_(disambiguation))

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