Anglo-American love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An American, especially an inhabitant of the United States, whose language and ancestry are English.
  • adjective Of, relating to, or between England and America, especially the United States.
  • adjective Of or relating to Anglo-Americans.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Belonging or relating to, or connected with, England and America or the United States, or with the people of both: as, Anglo-American commerce; Anglo-American relations.
  • Pertaining to the English who have settled in America, especially in the United States, or have become American citizens: as, the Anglo-American population of New York.
  • noun A native or descendant of a native of England who has settled in America or has become an American (United States) citizen.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun an American who was born in England or whose ancestors were English.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the English and Americans, or to the descendants of Englishmen in America.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun White, non-Hispanic citizen of the United States.
  • noun English-American, a North American of English heritage.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an American who was born in Britain or one whose ancestors were British

Etymologies

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From Anglo + American.

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Examples

  • Henry enjoyed his school, which was called the Anglo-American and was housed in the rather dowdy buildings of what had once been a Soviet school.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • Henry enjoyed his school, which was called the Anglo-American and was housed in the rather dowdy buildings of what had once been a Soviet school.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • The letter called Anglo-American ties "rock solid" and even gave a new formulation to describe them: "Ours is not just a special relationship; it is an essential relationship."

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • The economic models for settling forestry claims and claims with mineral rights (such as Anglo-American, Sappi, and Mondi) were in the final stages and should also assist in addressing some of the more challenging claims.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Nicky appealed to their old bonds.8 While the term “the cousins’ war” has been employed to refer to Anglo-American conflicts, World War I might also be dubbed a war of cousins.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Nicky appealed to their old bonds.8 While the term “the cousins’ war” has been employed to refer to Anglo-American conflicts, World War I might also be dubbed a war of cousins.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • The mine will b owned by NorthernDynasty, a Canadian subsidiary of Anglo-American which is complicit in the blood diamond trade.

    WordPress.com News 2008

  • Similarly, Frederick Hurten Rhead, one of the leading Anglo-American potters of the early twentieth century, learned that only consumers, and not style experts, could “tell the manufacturer what to make.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • §§3141–3156; Francois Quintard-Morenas, “The Presumption of Innocence in the French and Anglo-American Legal Traditions,” 58 American Journal of Comparative Law 107 n.355 2010.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • His education was English or, more exactly, Anglo-American he attended Oxford and Harvard.

    Adventures in Greeneland Allan Massie 2012

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