Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An English-speaking person, especially one in a country where two or more languages are spoken.
- adjective English-speaking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who speaks the English language.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
English -speaking - noun One who speaks
English .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And a diversity of themes, unfortunately absent in Anglophone SF.
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This aspect could be interesting to the genre fusion in Anglophone countries.
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The whole tradition of law by precedent, which is the case in Anglophone countries like the U.S. and the U.K., is by, definition, pro-tradition and anti-rationalist.
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To be fair, it must be said that similar efforts to promote foreign SF also exist in Anglophone countries: James Morrow's anthology including SF stories by 16 European writers.
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Proportional representation seemed not to have gone too well in Anglophone countries.
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I do think, as I've said, that he crosses the line into offence, --but as I've also said, the ant-pile of 'Anglophone' SF needs poking from time to time.
ianmcdonald: Spingate ianmcdonald 2010
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The Ugandan strongman said he wanted to end the practice whereby African countries are known as "Anglophone" or
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(A fellow expatriated Ugly American, a musician from Hawaii, assures me all so-called Anglophone Canadians are named Gord.
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As on can deduce from the quote from Wilson above, the Germans may have copied their racism from Anglo-phone countries, but Anglophone and French countries also had strong humanistic and egalitarian traditions that they did not copy.
Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats 2009
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"One example is that of Francophone parents, who recorded themselves reading poems, short stories and spelling tests to help Anglophone parents and students with French homework," said Ms. Bouteillon, who is now the instructional coach at the Carroll School.
Learning to Be French in Brooklyn Kavita Mokha 2011
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