Definition of Anglo-Celt in English:
Anglo-Celt
nounaŋɡləʊˈkɛltˌaNGɡlōˈkelt
A person of British or Irish descent (used chiefly outside Britain and Ireland)
Trudeau put multicultural affairs in the hands of a sympathetic Anglo-Celt
Example sentencesExamples
- The member for Werriwa, Mr. Mark Latham, certainly expresses the thoughts of many, if not the majority of Australians in the usage without redundancy and through the descriptive and malleable language of the Anglo-Celt.
- Most of these noble white guys (and they were almost all male Anglo-Celts) are dead or doddery.
- Melbourne is famed for producing four seasons in one day and that's the kind of weather Anglo-Celts can relate to.
- An Anglo-Celt is no less likely to be a megalomaniac than anyone else.
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adjective
Whatever the current political climate may make of the pioneers who attempted to ‘open up’ the interior, that economic experiment was not solely a product of Anglo-Celtic ingenuity, effort or political hegemony.
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- The constant depiction of Anglo-Celtic Australia and its history as flawed, regrettable and valueless creates a siege mentality that closes minds and shuts down any rational discussion of what it is to be Australian.
- Australians of Asian ancestry - and indeed any ancestry other than Anglo-Celtic - will find an equality of sorts in their utter absence from Greer's narrative. They simply don't exist.
- Demographics indicate unquestionably that the independent (non-Catholic) private schools cater primarily to Anglo-Celtic children, predominantly those residing in areas of affluence.
- Occasionally, and very discreetly, the results are perused to discover whether certain ethnic students do better than those of Anglo-Celtic provenance.