anglophone

Examples

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• Consider how we anglophones use the words "battle" or "fight" to describe someone overcoming tough circumstances or serious illness.

  Blog text (27)

• The council intends to recruit additional members from the ranks of Africa's outstanding democratic leaders, Francophone and Anglophone, female and male.

  Academic text (2004)

• Also, in aid as in trade and investments, Japanese prefer dealing with anglophone rather than francophone or lusophone Africa.

  Academic text (1991)

• He also suggests that by mid-century, small numbers of Genteel Acadian children were becoming Anglophone or at least were using English as a primary language.

  Academic text (2000)

• Until 1977, the final exams for graduating secondary and high school students in Anglophone Cameroon were formulated and graded in London.

  Academic text (1992)

• The majority of Cajuns born after 1950 were mother-tongue Anglophone and at best passive bilingual in French, and the language was declining in public spheres.

  Academic text (2000)

• Even in the deepest heartlands of Welsh speakers, being a monoglot Anglophone will barely inconvenience you at all, especially if you speak with the correct Welsh accent.

  Blog text (5)

• Western nations met at the Berlin Conference in 1884 to partition West Africa into "spheres of influence" and essentially divided the area into two territories: Anglophone (English-speaking) and Francophone (French-speaking).

  Academic text (2009)

• An Anglophone from Canada shared her thoughts on the importance of bilingualism in schools.

• In many Anglophone countries, English is the primary language of government and media.

Synonyms

A

Anglo

vsanglophone

4.6

A person from England or of English background

focuses on native or fluent English ability rather than birthplace or descent

How English-speaking

native speaker

5 3.3

anglophone

1 5.5

English teacher

51 1.0

nonnative

4.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology