anglophone, n. and a.
(ˈæŋgləʊfəʊn)
Also with capital initial.
[f. Anglo- + -phone 2.]
A. n. An English-speaking person. B. adj. English-speaking.
| 1900 [see francophone n. and a.]. 1965 Punch 24 Nov. 775/2 His intimate knowledge of affairs in Africa (Francophone as well as Anglophone)..equips him outstandingly to point out not only what has gone wrong in West Africa..but what should be done to put it right. 1967 Saturday Night (Toronto) Oct. 19 It is because our fizzy Canadian cocktail has intoxicating qualities, because a dazzling future lies in wait for francophones and anglophones..that we should hold together, along with the valuable New Canadians. 1971 Times 12 June 15/2 It is significant that the same development did not take place in Anglophone Africa. 1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Feb. 1/1 Now it is the Anglophone spokesmen who have rushed to the political front lines to defend what they see as a fundamental right. 1978 Nature 23 Nov. 425/2 Occasional lapses grate a little to anglophones (‘{ddd}the Protestant minister David Fabricius’) and some analogy requires a good knowledge of Italian geography. 1984 Newslet. Amer. Dial. Soc. Sept. 6/1 Multilingual Switzerland is not an anglophone country. |