English
English
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
1 uncountable, countable the language, originally of England, now spoken in many other countries and used as a language of international communication throughout the world She speaks good English.
I need to improve my English.
world Englishes
They taught conversational English to a group of Japanese students.
Collocations
adjective
2 uncountable English language or literature as a subject of study a degree in English
English is my best subject.
3 the English plural the people of England (sometimes wrongly used to mean the British, including the Scots, the Welsh and the Northern Irish) Idioms
Word Origin
Old English Englisc (from Angle, a Germanic people who came to England in 5th century AD + -ish). The word originally denoted the early Germanic settlers of Britain (Angles, Saxons, and Jutes), or their language (now called Old English).