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Anglo-Saxon America

Anglo-Saxon America proper noun: the parts of the American continent colonized or historically controlled by Anglo-Saxon people, principally the USA and Canada.

Proper noun

Anglo-Saxon America

  1. The parts of the American continent colonized or historically controlled by Anglo-Saxon people, principally the USA and Canada.
    • In 1800 the population of the United States and Canada combined was 6 million whereas that of Latin America was over 19 million. By 1900, Anglo-Saxon America had a population of 81 million and Latin America only 63 million.1970, Celso Furtado, Economic Development of Latin America: A Survey from Colonial Times to the Cuban Revolution, page 8
    • Nevertheless, during the nineteenth century there was a similar concern in both Anglo-Saxon America and Spanish America with "purification" of the blood […]1999, Mario Sáenz, The Identity of Liberation in Latin American Thought, page 101
  2. Synonym of white America.
    • Excluded from Anglo-Saxon America, Irish-Americans […]1976, James Paul Rodechko, Patrick Ford and His Search for America: A Case Study of Irish-American Journalism, 1870-1913, page 218
    • […] from the compact trope of "the sea-divided Gael," to the poet's refusal of an "Anglo-Saxon" America because "you are not of the self-same race […]1998, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race, page 51
    Synonyms:
    white America

Examples of Anglo-Saxon America in a sentence

  • The "manifest destiny" of Anglo-Saxon America was a favorite theme of Fourth of July orators2006, Gary J Dorrien, The Making of American Liberal Theology, page 319:
  • Many expressed their desire to join Anglo-Saxon America by adopting their forms of Protestantism.2002, Donna R. Gabaccia, Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History, page 132:

Synonyms of Anglo-Saxon America

Questions about Anglo-Saxon America

What does Anglo-Saxon America mean?
Anglo-Saxon America means the parts of the American continent colonized or historically controlled by Anglo-Saxon people, principally the USA and Canada.
How do you use Anglo-Saxon America in a sentence?
The "manifest destiny" of Anglo-Saxon America was a favorite theme of Fourth of July orators
What part of speech is Anglo-Saxon America?
Anglo-Saxon America is a proper noun.

Words near Anglo-Saxon America in the dictionary

  1. Anglo-Nubian goat
  2. Anglo-Nubian goats
  3. Anglo-Nubians
  4. Anglo-Palestinian
  5. Anglo-Saxon
  6. Anglo-Saxon America
  7. Anglo-Saxondom
  8. Anglo-Saxonism
  9. Anglo-Saxonisms
  10. Anglo-Saxonist
  11. Anglo-Saxonists

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