Anglospheren.
/ˈaŋɡləsfɪə/, /ˈaŋɡləʊsfɪə/, U.S. /ˈæŋɡloʊˌsfɪ(ə)r/, /ˈæŋɡləˌsfɪ(ə)r/ Usually with the. English-speaking countries considered collectively; esp. the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (and sometimes other countries), regarded as a group with a shared historical and cultural heritage.Quot. 1995 is from a science fiction novel set in a futuristic version of the world; the Anglosphere refers generally to the English-speaking parts of it.
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1995 N. Stephenson Diamond Age ii. 373 The tiny old houses and flats..had mostly been refurbished into toeholds for young Atlantans from all around the Anglosphere.
2004 J. C. Bennett Anglosphere Challenge ii. 79 To be part of the Anglosphere implies the sharing of fundamental customs and values at the core of English-speaking cultures.
2013 London Evening Standard 10 Oct. 61/5 The UK lags not only behind France and Germany, but also the rest of the Anglosphere including the US and Canada, in terms of job satisfaction.
Compounds
As a modifier, with the sense ‘of, relating to, or belonging to the Anglosphere’, as in Anglosphere country, Anglosphere nation, etc.
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2000 New Statesman 13 Mar. 21/2 He thinks that the Anglosphere states are all becoming more entrepreneurial than even advanced Continental countries.
2007 Daily Tel. 19 June 23/3 Our fellow Anglosphere countries Australia, Canada, New Zealand and America..pay absolutely nothing to the EU for the privilege of trading with it.
2018 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 July Economic interest or politics or national security has never been enough to persuade the peoples of these different countries to enter into an Anglosphere alliance.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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