Anglo-American

American  

[ang-gloh-uh-mer-i-kuhn] / ˈæŋ gloʊ əˈmɛr ɪ kən /

adjective

1. belonging to, relating to, or involving England and America, especially the United States, or the people of the two countries.

   the Anglo-American policy toward Russia.

2. of or relating to Anglo-Americans.

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noun

1. a native or descendant of a native of England who has settled in or become a citizen of America, especially of the United States.

Anglo-American British  

adjective

1. of or relating to relations between England and the United States or their peoples

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noun

1. an inhabitant or citizen of the United States who was or whose ancestors were born in England

Other Word Forms

• Anglo-Americanism
  noun

Etymology

Origin of Anglo-American

An Americanism dating back to 1730–40

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Anglo-American

“If you take a 1,000-year view of that, it is completely outside the Anglo-American legal tradition in a way that should be the first point that anybody makes about this.”

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026

"The visit comes in the biggest crisis in Anglo-American relations for a century," says Andrew Lownie, author of the best-selling biography of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

And why wouldn’t they choose a more patriotic, Anglo-American artist?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

This question, central to my book, mostly goes unaddressed in Mr. Simms’s piece, which merely repeats his argument that the Führer’s main concern was the Anglo-American world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

I worked for a solid year, and at the end of it I had a draft of my thesis: “The Family, Morality, and Social Science in Anglo-American Cooperative Thought, 1813-1890.”

From "Educated" by Tara Westover