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Anglo

Anglo

45 4.8
Relating to England, the English language or English-speaking culture
  • adjective
  • /ˈæŋɡloʊ/
translation icon : anglo
  • We have entered a new era of Anglo-Soviet cooperation.
  • Anglo-American
  • Anglo-Saxon
  • Anglo culture

And it's a oneness that, but it's not something that exists in the Anglo world.

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Examples

  • For reasons of space and expertise, this will mean focusing on Anglo-American-European practices.

    Academic text (1999)
  • In Anglo American law, this is called precedence.

  • Much survey research has been conducted by Anglo researchers on Anglo populations.

    Academic text (1991)
  • I am speaking, of course, of the English and Anglo-American roots of American institutions.

    Academic text (1991)
  • And this has become profoundly deep rooted in Anglo-Saxon culture.

  • Although many sites were soon reoccupied, they received new names from their Anglo-Saxon settlers.

  • While the Vikings divided up the land, Wessex now stood alone, the last Anglo-Saxon Kingdom not to fall.

  • Thirteen years after the first Anglo-American settlers arrived in 1822, the Texas Revolution began.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The Anglo culture has significantly influenced modern American society.

  • His education was steeped in Anglo traditions that date back centuries.

Synonyms

English
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426 1.0

Relating to England, its people, or its culture

is broader, including the language and all who speak it

Compounds

A white person with British family background who follows Protestant Christianity and is often from a socially important group

An American born in Britain or whose family comes from Britain

Anglo-Catholicism
  • Specialized
9.9

A movement in the Church of England that has many Catholic beliefs and ceremonies

Anglo-French language
  • Specialized
9.9

A form of French used for law and government in England in the Middle Ages

Anglo-French
  • Specialized
9.9

The French spoken in England in the Middle Ages by rulers and lawyers

9.9

A small bellows instrument with buttons on both ends, square or six-sided

A person whose family is both British and Indian, or a British person who lived in India during British rule

Anglo-Norman
  • Specialized
9.9

A form of Norman French used in England from the 11th to the 15th centuries

Anglo-Norman language
  • Specialized
9.9

A form of Norman French used in England in the Middle Ages by rulers, courts, and writers

Anglo-Saxon deity
  • Literature
9.9

A god or goddess that Anglo-Saxon people worship

A form of English people spoke and wrote in England before about 1100

A short rude English word of four letters that insults someone

Surface Forms

Anglo positive

Etymology

Anglo comes from the old tribe called the Angles, whose name gave us England and English. So Anglo means 'of England' or 'English', which is why we use it for things connected to English language and culture.