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English-speaking

English-speaking

21 1.9
A person, country, or community that can speak English
  • adjective
  • /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃˈspiːkɪŋ/
translation icon : angloparlante
  • You know, there are English-speaking schools over the border, in Italy.
  • English-speaking children
  • English-speaking countries
  • English-speaking population

Because I, I had grown up, I had attended an English speaking school in, in Bogota.

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Examples

  • Many English-speaking countries have different accents and dialects of the language.

  • Participants were 803 English-speaking preschoolers from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

    Academic text (2015)
  • All those countries you mentioned are English speaking, English language speaking countries.

  • So my target audience will be English speaking in some way.

  • We're just doing that for our English speaking audience.

  • But I think I'm convinced that we are big in English speaking countries.

  • Everybody in the English-speaking world knows that song.

  • I was informed that an English-speaking officer had been summoned to question us.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • For the first time in history, Christians in the English-speaking world are using common liturgical texts.

    Academic text (2013)
  • In Western developed societies, notably the English-speaking ones, higher education institutions exhibit a great fascination with themselves.

    Academic text (1993)

How English-speaking

anglophone
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English-speaking
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Surface Forms

English-speaking positive

Morphology

English-speaking = English + speak (transparent) = English + speak + ing

The phrase is a straightforward combination of 'English' + the participial form of 'speak' (speak + -ing) yielding the adjectival meaning 'able to speak English' or 'where English is spoken'.

Etymology

English-speaking joins English ('the language') and speak ('to say words'), so it quite simply means 'saying words in English'. That's why we use it for people, places, or groups where English is used.