Explore Englishness through 3 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Englishness in a sentence
Englishness meaning
The quality, state or characteristic of being English.
Using Englishness
- The main meaning on this page is: The quality, state or characteristic of being English.
- In the example corpus, englishness often appears in combinations such as: of englishness.
Context around Englishness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Englishness
- In this selection, "englishness" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include englishness was at and nature of englishness. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "englishness" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with englishness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It’s such an inherent, cultural part of Englishness that Morgan may as well have declared war on us. (19 words)
Englishness was at a high premium in my world, and his experience dwarfed my entertainer's life as a hippie, basket-passing folk singer on the Greenwich Village coffee house circuit. (31 words)
Now he is torn between trying “to step back from the unfolding shitshow because it’s too upsetting” and his unflagging fascination with the “questions that Brexit has thrown up about the nature of Englishness”. (35 words)
Now he is torn between trying “to step back from the unfolding shitshow because it’s too upsetting” and his unflagging fascination with the “questions that Brexit has thrown up about the nature of Englishness”. (35 words)
Englishness was at a high premium in my world, and his experience dwarfed my entertainer's life as a hippie, basket-passing folk singer on the Greenwich Village coffee house circuit. (31 words)
It’s such an inherent, cultural part of Englishness that Morgan may as well have declared war on us. (19 words)
Example sentences (3)
Now he is torn between trying “to step back from the unfolding shitshow because it’s too upsetting” and his unflagging fascination with the “questions that Brexit has thrown up about the nature of Englishness”.
It’s such an inherent, cultural part of Englishness that Morgan may as well have declared war on us.
Englishness was at a high premium in my world, and his experience dwarfed my entertainer's life as a hippie, basket-passing folk singer on the Greenwich Village coffee house circuit.
Common combinations with englishness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of englishness 2×