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noun, plural An·glos.
- a white American of non-Hispanic descent, as distinguished especially from an American of Mexican or Spanish descent.
- (sometimes lowercase) an English-speaking person in a place where English is not the language of the majority.
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of Anglos.
- a combining form of English: Anglo-Norman; Anglo-Catholic.
noun plural -glos
- US a White inhabitant of the United States who is not of Latin extraction
- Australian an Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent
- Canadian an English-speaking Canadian, esp one of Anglo-Celtic origin; an Anglo-Canadian
combining form
- denoting English or EnglandAnglo-Saxon
“American, English-speaking white person,” 1941, southwestern U.S., from Anglo-American. Anglo was used similarly of native, English-speakers in Canada from 1800 and Britain from 1964.
from Medieval Latin Anglo-, comb. form of Angli “the English” (see Angle).