Briticism
See also: Britishism
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Brit- (in British) + -icism (in Scotticism, Anglicism, etc.). Compare earlier Britishism.[1]
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɪzəm
- Hyphenation: Brit‧i‧cism
Noun
[edit]Briticism (plural Briticisms)
- (rhetoric) A word or figure of speech used in Britain exclusively or primarily.
- Synonym: Anglicism (polysemic)
- Hypernyms: Anglicism (polysemic), Englishism
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (dialectisms) dialectism; Americanism (Yankeeism, Yankism), Australianism, Britishism (anglicism, Briticism), Canadianism, Indianism, Irishism, Scotticism, southernism, New Zealandism
foreignismsedit
- Akkadianism / Akkadism
- Americanism
- Amharism
- Anglicism
- Arabism
- Aramaism / Aramaicism / Arameanism / Aramism
- Armenism
- Australianism
- Batavism
- Belorussianism
- Bengalism
- Briticism
- Bulgarism
- Catalanism
- Church Slavicism / Church Slavonicism / Slavonicism
- Croatism
- Czechism / Bohemism / Bohemianism
- Gaelicism
- Gallicism / Frenchism
- Germanism / Teutonism
- Grecism / Hellenism
- Hebraism / Hebraicism
- Hispanism / Hispanicism / Castilianism
- Hungarianism / Magyarism
- Indianism
- Iranianism
- Irishism
- Italianism / Italicism
- Japanism
- Kazakhism
- Latinism
- Macedonianism / Macedonism
- Mandaism
- Moravianism
- New Zealandism
- Persianism
- Phoenicianism
- Polonism
- Portuguesism / Lusitanism
- Russianism
- Scotticism
- Semitism
- Serbism
- Serbo-Croatism
- Sinicism
- Slavism, Slavicism, Slavoidism
- Slovenism / Pannonianism
- Sumerianism / Sumerism
- Syriacism
- Turkism
- Ugaritism
- Ukrainism / Ukrainianism
- Uzbekism
- Yiddishism
Translations
[edit]word or expression used in Britain
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References
[edit]- ^ “Briticism, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Further reading
[edit]- “Briticism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.