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• Anglo
  Anglo

  noun

  a white American of non-Hispanic descent, as distinguished especially from an American of Mexican or Spanish descent.
• Anglo-
  Anglo-

  a combining form of English.

Anglo

¹ American  

[ang-gloh] / ˈæŋ gloʊ /

noun

• Anglos
  plural

1. a white American of non-Hispanic descent, as distinguished especially from an American of Mexican or Spanish descent.

2. (sometimes lowercase) an English-speaking person in a place where English is not the language of the majority.

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adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Anglos.

Anglo- ² American  

1. a combining form of English.

   Anglo-Norman; Anglo-Catholic.

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Anglo ¹ British  

/ ˈæŋɡləʊ /

noun

1. a White inhabitant of the United States who is not of Latin extraction

2. an Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent

3. an English-speaking Canadian, esp one of Anglo-Celtic origin; an Anglo-Canadian

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Anglo- ² British  

/ ˈæŋɡləʊ- /

combining form

1. denoting English or England

   Anglo-Saxon

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Anglos
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Anglo¹

First recorded in 1835–45; independent use of Anglo-

Origin of Anglo-²

< Late Latin Angl ( us ) ( see Anglic) + -o-

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Anglo Anglo- Anglos

In February, Anglo slashed in half the value of its diamond business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Anglo American is in the midst of a major shake-up of its portfolio that began after it rebuffed a nearly $50 billion hostile takeover bid from bigger rival BHP in 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

While Anglo American’s operational performance was decent, its 2.9% share increase on Thursday was more driven by Teck’s earnings, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

For the past two years, Kermit had been working in South America, where he was currently supervising the construction of bridges for the Anglo Brazilian Iron Company.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

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

Their key company, Anglo- Chilean Consolidated Nitrate Corp., has bulked larger and larger in the industry.

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

While a large Hispanic population maintained some influence in New Mexico, Arizona from the start was a place where Anglos held the levers of power.

From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2020

Campbell said, “There’s a great deal of intimacy and mix between Anglos and Mexicans. … It’s not like you had this white community and this brown one.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2019

Unlike many other westerns that had Italians and Anglos play Mexicans, “The Wild Bunch” used mostly actors from Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 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 Cory Doctorow