Definition of Englishes

1. Noun. (plural of English) (used of dialects etc) ¹

2. Verb. (archaic) (third-person singular of English) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Englishes

1. english [v] - See also: english

Lexicographical Neighbors of Englishes

engirdle
engirdled
engirdles
engirdling
engirds
engirt
engiscope
engiscopes
englacial
engladden
engladdened
engladdening
engladdens
english
englished
englishes (current term)
englishing
englishwoman
englobe
englobed
englobement
englobes
englobing
engloom
engloomed
englooming
englooms
englue
englued

Literary usage of Englishes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Kaffir-English Dictionary by Albert Kropf (1899)
"... in the englishes«. It is a semivowel, equivalent to the simple sound i before another vowel : ia— ya, te=ye, etc. Y prefixed to the verb, root forms the ..."

2. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1882)
"There were the englishes of the boyhood, and the manhood, of the Caxtons who had preceded him—his father, his grandfather; there were the englishes of the ..."

3. The New English by T[homas] L[aurence] Kington Oliphant (1886)
"The verb stryke englishes je lache ; it is here, p. 377, applied to letting down a crane ; our strike sail had been used centuries earlier; stryke on ground ..."

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