Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An Anglo-American.
- noun An English-speaking person, especially a white North American who is not of Hispanic or French ancestry.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Alley Kat: Robert: Yes, I understand that the term Anglo is also misused, as well as the history behind the practice ....
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator 2009
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I use the label Anglo-Celtic to describe what I expect is a fairly common situation in Australia.
unknown title 2009
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But it is Professor Painter who has had the wit to think hard enough about these subjects to construe their role in the making of what she calls the Anglo-Saxon myth.
Archive 2008-03-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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Fraser regretted the steady erosion of what he calls Anglo-Australians' distinctive national identity.
7/31/05 - 8/7/05 Steve Sailer 2005
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Fraser regretted the steady erosion of what he calls Anglo-Australians' distinctive national identity.
Archive 2005-07-31 Steve Sailer 2005
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Fraser regretted the steady erosion of what he calls Anglo-Australians' distinctive national identity.
Interview with Drew Fraser Steve Sailer 2005
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She aimed to demonstrate German superiority and expose what she called Anglo-Saxon hypocrisy and cant.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller 1901
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In America and in Australia a new modification of what we call Anglo-Saxonism is growing.
Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society Walter Bagehot 1851
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Bramwell then sneers at what he calls the Anglo-Saxons 'congenital paranoia.
Vanishing American 2009
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In the early months of the U.S. housing and financial markets collapse, much of the rest of the world heaped schadenfreude on what they called the Anglo-Saxon economic model of free markets, entrepreneurship, and relatively light regulation.
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