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english /'iɳgliʃ/
- tính từ
- (thuộc) Anh
- (thuộc) Anh
- danh từ
- người Anh
- tiếng Anh ((cũng) the king's, the queen's English)
- Old English: tiếng Anh cổ
- Middle English: tiếng Anh Trung cổ
- Modern English: tiếng Anh hiện đại
- (ngành in) cỡ 14
- in plain English
- nói rõ ràng dễ hiểu; nói thẳng ra (không quanh co)
- ngoại động từ
- (từ cổ,nghĩa cổ) dịch ra tiếng Anh
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) Anh hoá
Advanced English dictionary
noun, adjective
+ noun
1 [U] the language of Britain, Ireland, N America, Australia and some other countries: She speaks good English. + I need to improve my English.
2 [U] English language or literature as a subject of study: a degree in English + English is my best subject.
3 (the English) [pl.] the people of England (sometimes wrongly used to mean the British, including the Scots, the Welsh and the Northern Irish)
Idioms: the King's / Queen's English (old-fashioned) (in Britain) correct standard English
more at PLAIN adj.
+ adjective
connected with England, its people or its language: the English countryside + an English man / woman + typically English attitudes + an English dictionary - BRITISH
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
plain
You'd have no trouble understanding his point if he'd written the article in plain English!
| spoken, written | American, British, Indian, etc. | BBC, the Queen's | Early, Middle, Modern, Old
More information about LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE:
excellent, fluent, good, perfect ~
He speaks fluent Japanese.
bad, broken, poor~
I got by with broken Chinese and sign language.
colloquial, idiomatic, non-standard, pidgin, standard ~
The inhabitants speak a kind of pidgin Spanish.
spoken, written ~
My spoken Polish is better than my written Polish.
business ~
She is doing a course in business English.
original ~
The fable is translated from the original French.
know, read, speak, understand, use ~
I am more comfortable using Spanish, if you don't mind.
be fluent in ~
She was fluent in German, Urdu and Swahili.
do, learn ~
I did German at school but I've forgotten most of it. I've been learning Arabic for four years.
improve, practise ~
I spent a month in Rome to improve my Italian.
master ~
I never really mastered Latin.
translate sth into ~
He has translated her latest book into Korean.
~ class, course, lesson
I'm late for my Russian class.
~ interpreter, speaker, a speaker of ~
the need for Gujarati interpreters
a command/knowledge of ~
He has a poor command of English.
in ~
What is ‘apple’ in French?He addressed me in his best Portuguese.
Concise English dictionary
Englishes|Englished|Englishing'ɪŋglɪʃ
noun
+an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
+the people of England
+the discipline that studies the English language and literature
+(sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist
adj.
+of or relating to or characteristic of England or its culture or people
+of or relating to the English language
