[brit-i-shiz-uh
m] 
| 1. | Briticism. |
| 2. | any custom, manner, characteristic, or quality peculiar to or associated with the British people. |
| 3. | the aggregate of such qualities regarded as characteristic of a British person: His cool reserve is just part of his Britishism. |
[brit-uh-siz-uhm] | a word, idiom, or phrase characteristic of or restricted to British English, esp. as compared with American English, as lift compared with elevator or in hospital with in the hospital. |
| Brit·i·cism (brĭt'ĭ-sĭz'əm) n. A word, phrase, or idiom characteristic of or peculiar to English as it is spoken in Great Britain. [From Briti(sh), on the model of words such as Gallicism.] |
| Brit·ish·ism (brĭt'ĭ-shĭz'əm) n. Variant of Briticism. |