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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

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Etymology

Origin of Anglo¹

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

Origin of Anglo-²

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

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Example Sentences

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Anglo Anglo- Anglos

Anglo American gains 2.1% while BHP’s London shares are 1.5% higher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

As James Henson put it to me, “The growth of the Latino population relative to the Anglo white population was going to be a lot more complicated than the demographical-destiny trope really took into account.”

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026

Anglo American gains 1.8% while BHP’s London shares rise 1.4%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Just a few years ago, De Beers, which is majority-owned by Anglo American, invested some $2.3 billion to convert the open-pit mine to an underground operation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Beyond them, in a town park, Anglo mothers and fathers spilled from VW buses and bugs to pick up their kids who had been in a Monday-Wednesday playgroup.

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

That began in the early 1900s, when local Mexican-American home cooking was first adapted in restaurants run “by Anglos for Anglos,” Mr. Medrano said.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2019

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

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