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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

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Anglo Anglo- Anglos

Jefferies expects a rotation out of other copper miners and into Anglo Teck, driving relative outperformance in the shares.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Antofagasta is up 5%, Fresnillo rises 3.8%, Endeavour Mining increases 3% and Anglo American is up 2.9%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

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

The agent, Kyril Montana, was a tall, sunny-looking Anglo with straw-colored hair and wide blue eyes, an all-American nose, straight thin lifts, and an athletic physique.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

"The U.S. wants to use the rules of Anglo- Saxon culture to bring about changes in Latin culture," says Emilio Alvarez, an ophthalmologist in Managua.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was one of the long-cherished dreams of Afrikaner nationalism, to cast off ties to the country they had fought against in the Anglo- Boer War.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Compared to greats like Ronnie Spector, Martell and her group the Anglos released their first single in 1962.

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2024

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

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