单词 | anglophone |
释义 | anglophonen.adj. A. n. An English-speaking person. (Frequently in Canadian contexts.) ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > one who speaks English Anglo1800 anglophone1900 Anglo-Saxon1951 1900 tr. J. Deniker Races of Man xiii. 508 In Canada two-thirds of the white population are Anglophones, and the rest Francophones. 1967 Sat. Night (Toronto) Oct. 19 It is because our fizzy Canadian cocktail has intoxicating qualities, because a dazzling future lies in wait for francophones and anglophones..that we should hold together, along with the valuable New Canadians. 1978 Nature 23 Nov. 425/2 Occasional lapses grate a little to anglophones (‘…the Protestant minister David Fabricius’) and some analogy requires a good knowledge of Italian geography. 2007 Leader-Post (Regina, Sask.) (Nexis) 26 Oct. b10 Anglophones in Montreal might lose the right to vote if Quebec became sovereign. B. adj. English-speaking; (also) of or relating to places where English is spoken. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > English-speaking anglophone1965 Anglo1968 1965 Punch 24 Nov. 775/2 His intimate knowledge of affairs in Africa (Francophone as well as Anglophone)..equips him outstandingly to point out not only what has gone wrong in West Africa..but what should be done to put it right. 1971 Times 12 June 15/2 It is significant that the same development did not take place in Anglophone Africa. 1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Feb. 1/1 Now it is the Anglophone spokesmen who have rushed to the political front lines to defend what they see as a fundamental right. 1984 Newslet. Amer. Dial. Soc. Sept. 6/1 Multilingual Switzerland is not an anglophone country. 2007 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 13 Oct. 28 The spiteful, philistine obituaries..in the right-leaning Anglophone press. Derivatives angloˈphonic adj. ΚΠ 1962 Jrnl. Afr. Law 6 145 The Sudan boasts one of the oldest law faculties in anglophonic Africa. 1992 ELT Jrnl. 46 16 Scholars who regularly follow the scientific literature in several languages are in a better position than those who are limited to one;..it is interesting to speculate on which implications this might have for the anglophonic world. 2002 Jrnl. Mil. Hist. 66 411 Joffre..is an understudied French figure of that conflict,..virtually ignored by the anglophonic historical community. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1900 |
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