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anglos

anglos is the plural of anglo.

Meaning of anglo

Noun

anglo (plural anglos)

  1. An English person or person of English ancestry.
    • Back when we went to the World Cup in South Africa, we saw many anglos waving English flags.
    1. (Australia, informal) An Anglo-Australian (as opposed to Australians of Mediterranean or Middle Eastern background)
  2. (nonstandard) A British person or person of British ancestry.
  3. (Canada, informal) An English-speaking Quebecer.
  4. (Southwestern, US, informal, offensive, sometimes) A North American, especially a white one (regardless of actual ethnicity), whose native language is English (as opposed to Americans who have another native language).
    • Spanish was the only "foreign" language taught in the school, where most of the students spoke Spanish as a first language, and it was taught by an Anglo teacher from textbooks written by and for Anglos […] Somehow, the school administration saw no contradiction in rewarding Anglo students for...1984 February 4, David Morris, “Different Origins: Joto Güero del West Side”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 15
  5. An anglo concertina.

Noun capitalized: Anglos

Anglos

  1. (plural) plural of Anglo

Questions about anglos

What is anglos the plural of?
Anglos is the plural of anglo.
What part of speech is anglos?
Anglos is a noun.

Words near anglos in the dictionary

  1. anglophone
  2. anglophones
  3. Anglophonic
  4. Anglophony
  5. Angloromani
  6. anglos
  7. Anglosaxon
  8. Anglosaxons
  9. anglosphere
  10. Anglospherian
  11. Anglospherians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anglos (page history and authors); Anglos (page history and authors); anglo (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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