anglophone

adjective

an·​glo·​phone ˈaŋ-glə-ˌfōn How to pronounce anglophone (audio)
often capitalized
: consisting of or belonging to an English-speaking population especially in a country where two or more languages are spoken
Anglophone noun

Examples of anglophone in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web All these white female characters making a show of reclaiming an anglophone novel from a privileged white man. Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2024 But the national government was always heavily dominated by French speakers, who the anglophone minority felt treated them as second-class citizens. Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2024 In 2016, lawyers and teachers in the two anglophone regions took to the streets in protest of the appointment of French-speaking officials to their courts and schools. Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2024 But an artist with a legacy like Shakira’s, on par with anglophone pop titans Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, should get to define her own eras accordingly. Suzy Exposito, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2024 Conservative power broker Murdoch's perch as head of Fox and News Corp. gave him enormous sway in anglophone conservative circles, with outlets such as Fox News credited with boosting the careers and policies of numerous right-leaning politicians. Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2023 De Kretser captures with luminous specificity Lili’s experiences as a young woman in provincial France in the early Eighties—specifically a young, non-French, anglophone woman of color. Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2022 There may indeed be reasons to be skeptical about Sebald’s reception in the anglophone world. Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022 Whereas Graff only gestures toward anything preceding the mid-nineteenth century, Guillory—as befits a scholar of the early modern period—is deeply interested in the long history of rhetorical instruction in anglophone schools and colleges. Evan Kindley, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of anglophone was in 1892

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“Anglophone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anglophone. Accessed 28 Sep. 2024.

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