anglicising
anglicising is the present participle and gerund of anglicise.
Meaning of anglicise
Verb
anglicise (third-person singular simple present anglicises, present participle anglicising, simple past and past participle anglicised)
- To make English, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style.
- Someone who is translating into English a German novel, the hero of which is named Heinrich, will leave the name as it is; he will not Anglicize it into Henry.1970, W. H. Auden, A Certain World, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 267
- To dub or translate into English.
- To become English.
Verb capitalized: Anglicising
Anglicising
- present participle and gerund of Anglicise
- Mr. J. A. B. Hamilton adds that there is little consistency in the Anglicising of Welsh nomenclature, as in the use of "v" in place of the Welsh "f"; note for example the names Caernarvon and Afon Wen; […].1945 September and October, “Notes and News: "Cilgerran" or "Kilgerran"?”, in Railway Magazine, page 303
Forms of anglicising
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Questions about anglicising
- What is anglicising the present participle and gerund of?
- Anglicising is the present participle and gerund of anglicise.
- What part of speech is anglicising?
- Anglicising is a verb.
Words near anglicising in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: anglicising (page history and authors); Anglicising (page history and authors); anglicise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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