In an ethnological context, it refers to the Brythonic people who once inhabited much of Great Britain, and a person of British decent etiher resident in the United Kingdom of abroad.
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In a geographical context, it usually applies to a person or object from Britain, which usually means the island of Great Britain, or possibly the British Isles collectively. In a political context, before the 1801 Act of Union, it applies to a person or object from the Kingdom of Great Britain; following that act, it often applies to the United Kingdom. This will certainly be the case when speaking of a person's nationality. In an historical context, it refers to a territory or person with allegiance to the British Empire. In a linguistic context, it refers to the various forms
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