a white American of non-Hispanic descent, as distinguished especially from an American of Mexican or Spanish descent.
(sometimes lowercase) an English-speaking person in a place where English is not the language of the majority.
a White inhabitant of the United States who is not of Latin extraction
an Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent
an English-speaking Canadian, esp one of Anglo-Celtic origin; an Anglo-Canadian
First recorded in 1835–45; independent use of Anglo-
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De Beers is majority-owned by Anglo American, which is reportedly trying to sell it and shift focus to the growing copper market, external fuelled by the recent AI boom.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
De Beers is majority-owned by British mining giant Anglo American, which is seeking to offload its stake as the natural diamond market faces intense pressure from laboratory-grown gems.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
In London, shares in Glencore and Anglo American are also sharply higher year to date.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Ian Tyler, currently chair of building materials firm Grafton Group and senior independent director at mining giant Anglo American, will take over as interim chair while the firm searches for a permanent successor.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
The theory of the Anglo Saxon home became so warped that it never quite recovered.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
At this meeting, the two leaders drafted the Atlantic Charter, the blueprint of Anglo- American cooperation during World War II. The charter stated that the United States and Britain sought no territory from the conflict.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
The decade also witnessed a decline in the state’s Anglo- American population to 40.8 percent by 2008 from 47.2 percent in 2000, according to data from the California Finance Department’s demographics office.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 23, 2010
A hundred years ago, one description of this phenomenon might have been "Anglo- or America-philia", but that will not wash today.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2010
Brief des-patches told of the signing of an Anglo- German Commercial Treaty; few hinted that it was one of the most important events of this postbellum decade.
From Time Magazine Archive
Maine speech is very like that in West Country England, the double vowels pronounced as they are in Anglo- Saxon, but the resemblance is doubly strong on Deer Isle.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Compared to greats like Ronnie Spector, Martell and her group the Anglos released their first single in 1962.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2024
“Anglos and mixed-race voters in Texas are also more conservative and less liberal than Anglos and mixed-race voters in California,” Baselice said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
The power had passed to Parr from his father, Archie, a state senator who had sided with Mexican-Americans in a 1912 battle with Anglos over political control in Duval County.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
Before the 1848 Gold Rush, out of a total California population of about 150,000, there were perhaps 1,000 Anglos in the entire state.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2019
We're centered around New York, but we're ramified up and down the coast, Boston and Toronto and Philly, a bunch of Montreal Anglos and some wannabes in upstate New York, around Buffalo and Schenectady.
From Eastern Standard Tribe by Doctorow, Cory
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