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anglosphere

/ˈæŋ.ɡləˌsfɪɹ/

anglosphere is the alternative letter-case form of Anglosphere.

Proper noun capitalized: Anglosphere

the Anglosphere

  1. The totality of Anglophone countries, the geographical or cultural realm of native English-speakers.
    • The tiny old houses and flats of this once impoverished quarter had mostly been refurbished into toeholds for young Atlantans from all around the Anglosphere, poor in equity but rich in expectations, who had come to the great city to incubate their careers.1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age […] , New York: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 373
    • These norms have survived, at least as residues, in the traditions of public speaking and “good writing” in many European languages in modern times. But not in the Anglosphere.2012, Anna Wierzbicka, “The history of English seen as the history of ideas”, in The Oxford Handbook of the History of English, page 439

Origin of anglosphere

From Anglo- + -sphere. Coined by American science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in his book The Diamond Age, published in 1995.

Words formed from anglosphere

Questions about anglosphere

What does anglosphere mean?
Anglosphere means the totality of Anglophone countries, the geographical or cultural realm of native English-speakers.
What is anglosphere the alternative letter-case form of?
Anglosphere is the alternative letter-case form of Anglosphere.
What part of speech is anglosphere?
Anglosphere is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce anglosphere?
Anglosphere is pronounced /ˈæŋ.ɡləˌsfɪɹ/.

Words near anglosphere in the dictionary

  1. Anglophony
  2. Angloromani
  3. anglos
  4. Anglosaxon
  5. Anglosaxons
  6. anglosphere
  7. Anglospherian
  8. Anglospherians
  9. Anglospheric
  10. angloversal
  11. angloversals

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