anglais
Language from Britain
Anglais is the French word for English, referring to the language or to English people.
It appears in English contexts in certain borrowed expressions: sauce anglaise (a vanilla custard), crème anglaise, cor anglais (the English horn).
The word is masculine; the feminine form is anglaise.
England's capital city
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- Big BenLondon's celebrated tower clock
- ThamesLondon's river
- teaSteeped leaf beverage
crumpets · pub · cricket · football · double-decker · Union Jack · BBC · Beatles
Smooth linguistic command
- accentRegional speech pattern
- pronunciationManner of speaking words
- grammarLanguage's structural rules
- vocabularyOne's word collection
idiom · bilingualism · ESL · TOEFL · IELTS · native speaker · second language · lingua franca
Of the United Kingdom
- BritonUnited Kingdom citizen
- AngloEnglish-origin prefix
- BritInformal UK citizen
- expatCitizen living abroad
immigrant · colonist · settler · American · Canadian · Australian · Irish · Scottish
Rules for arranging words
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
- phoneticsStudy of speech sounds
pragmatics · etymology · lexicography · sociolinguistics · dialectology · Germanic · Indo-European · cognates
London
England's capital city
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- Big BenLondon's celebrated tower clock
- ThamesLondon's river
tea · crumpets · pub · cricket · football · double-decker · Union Jack · BBC · Beatles · Stonehenge
fluency
Smooth linguistic command
- accentRegional speech pattern
- pronunciationManner of speaking words
- grammarLanguage's structural rules
vocabulary · idiom · bilingualism · ESL · TOEFL · IELTS · native speaker · second language · lingua franca · comprehension
British
Of the United Kingdom
expat · immigrant · colonist · settler · American · Canadian · Australian · Irish · Scottish · Welsh
syntax
Rules for arranging words
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
phonetics · pragmatics · etymology · lexicography · sociolinguistics · dialectology · Germanic · Indo-European · cognates · loanwords
English, Anglophone, anglicize, Anglican, Englishman, Englishwoman, Englishmen, Englishwomen, Anglicanism