British

British often refers to:

• People or things associated with the island of Great Britain
  • British Isles, an island group
  • 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

• People or things associated to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a sovereign state
  • British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies
  • British Islands, legal juridisctions that constitute the principal nucleus of British sovereignty
  • 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
  • British Monarchy, the royal family of the United Kingdom
  • British Army, one of the armed forces of the United Kingdom

British may also refer to:

Historical regions

• 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

Organizations

• British Airways, the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom
• British Museum, a public museum in London

Other uses

• British Columbia, a province of Canada
• Brit(ish), a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch

See also

• Terminology of the British Isles
• Alternative names for the British
• Britannic (disambiguation)
• Brit (disambiguation)
• Briton (disambiguation)
• Britain (disambiguation)
• Great Britain (disambiguation)
• United Kingdom (disambiguation)
• English (disambiguation)
• Scottish (disambiguation)
• Welsh (disambiguation)
• North Irish (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with British
• All pages with titles beginning with Great British
• All pages with titles containing British