half-English

adjective

1. having partial English citizenship through the nationality of one parent

Example Sentences

Violette Szabo, a half-French, half-English widow and mother, joined Britain’s Special Operations Executive and was trained as a saboteur and spy before parachuting into France to fight with the resistance.

From Washington Post

Fariba is 41, and half-Iranian, half-English.

From BBC

Las Cafeteras, a Chicano band from East Los Angeles, recorded a half-English, half-Spanish version of Ray Charles’s “Georgia On My Mind” — a rendition intended to reflect the rising tide of Black and Latino voters in the state.

From New York Times

As a young man, straddling these two cultures of being half-Malaysian and half-English, I was always confused about who I was and what culture I represented.

From New York Times

The two parishes are half-English, half-Spanish and have about 400 families each, he said.

From Washington Post