originally L., combining form of Angl-us English; in derivatives, as ANGLOPHOBIA; compounds, as ANGLO-SAXON; combinations, as Anglo-Turkish. For history see ANGLO-SAXON.
1. a. English, of England; as in ANGLO-CATHOLIC, ANGLO-SAXON; Anglo-Danish, pertaining to the Danes in England; Anglo-French, the French retained and separately developed in England; Anglo-Latin, Anglicised Latin, Anglo-Judaic, -Jewish, -Norman. Also, b. Of English race, origin, descent (though now living temporarily or permanently elsewhere), as Anglo-American, -Canadian, -Hibernian, -Indian, -Irish.
a. [1584. Fenner, Def. Ministers (1587), F iv. The Iesuites who dayly laugh at vs both, calling some Anglo-puritani.]
1791. Boswell, Johnson (1831), I. 198. Sir Thomas Browne … was remarkably fond of Anglo-Latin diction. Ibid., 293. This Anglo-Latian word procerity.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 113. England is full of Anglo-Normanic monuments.
1811. Scott, in Sir Tristr., Introd. 81. The Anglo-Norman Rimeur.
1859. Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt. Part., II. lxxxviii. 59. Rebuilt, whether in the Italo-Gothic or the Anglo-Gothic style.
1874. Parker, Introd. Goth. Archit., I. ii. (ed. 3), 22. The French Archæologists … call our Norman style the Anglo-Norman style.
b. 1789–96. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 669. They never shed the blood of an Anglo American.
1792. Burke, Lett., Wks. 1845, III. 507. Finding the Anglo-Irish highly animated with a spirit, which had shewn itself before.
1834. Bancroft, Hist. U.S. (1876), III. iv. 350. The Anglo-Irish could not intermarry with the Celts.
1842. Penny Cycl., s.v. Texas, Distrust between the Anglo-American colonists … and the settlers of Spanish descent.
1858. Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt. P., I. xlvii. 183. That sensible men consider Nana Sahib as an Anglo-Indian myth.
1861. Swinhoe, N. China Camp., 153. Called Bier by the Anglo-Indians.
1882. Standard, 5 Dec., 5/5. Amongst Anglo-Egyptians … the prevailing feelings are very different.
c. Used separately. rare.
1844. A. Mallalieu, Buenos Ayres, 65. The federal system in the Anglo States of America.
2. English and; English in connection with; as Anglo-Chinese, -Egyptian, -French, Turkish, etc. Cf. the similar Franco-German, Græco-Roman, and other modern combinations.
1855. (title) Diplomatic Mystifications and Popular Credulity; or, The Anglo-French Alliance.
1878. N. Amer. Rev., CXXVII. 396. The Anglo-Russian convention and the Anglo-Turkish treaty placed England in a position in which Russia could well afford to leave her.
