Anglo-: Definition and part of speech

Anglo-

A combining form meaning the same as English; or English and, or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German, Anglo-Irish.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. A member of the Church of England who contends for its catholic character; more specifically, a High Churchman.
a. Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; — sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.

n. A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc.

a. Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.
n. A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or “Old”) Saxon.
n. The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest.
n. The language of the English people before the Conquest (sometimes called Old English). See Saxon.
n. One of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of English descent in its broadest sense.

n. The Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race.

n. The quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense.
n. A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue.

A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; — so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.