Anglosphere en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /ˈæŋ.ɡləˌsfɪɹ/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Anglo- + -sphere. Coined by American science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in his book The Diamond Age, published in 1995.
Meanings
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The totality of Anglophone countries, the geographical or cultural realm of native English-speakers.
These norms have survived, at least as residues, in the traditions of public speaking and “good writing” in many European languages in modern times. But not in the Anglosphere.
2012, Anna Wierzbicka, “The history of English seen as the history of ideas”, in The Oxford Handbook of the History of English, page 439:The tiny old houses and flats of this once impoverished quarter had mostly been refurbished into toeholds for young Atlantans from all around the Anglosphere, poor in equity but rich in expectations, who had come to the great city to incubate their careers.
1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age […] , New York: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 373:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Anglosphere | canonical | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
Anglospheric · Anglospherian · Anglospherism
Relateds
Translations (21)
sv Anglosfären (Anglophone realm) · el αγγλόσφαιρα (Anglophone realm) · ko 영어권 (Anglophone realm) · es anglosfera (Anglophone realm) · ca anglofonia (Anglophone realm) · es angloesfera (Anglophone realm) · tr İngilizce konuşan insanlar topluluğu (Anglophone realm) · ko 영미권 (Anglophone realm) · fr anglosphère (Anglophone realm) · ru англоязы́чные стра́ны (Anglophone realm) · sv den engelsktalande världen (Anglophone realm) · pt anglosfera (Anglophone realm) · de Anglosphäre (Anglophone realm) · ja 英語圏 (Anglophone realm) · ru англосфе́ра (Anglophone realm) · cs anglosaské země (Anglophone realm) · ro lume anglofonă (Anglophone realm) · cmn 英語圈 /英语圈 (Anglophone realm) · fr anglophonie (Anglophone realm) · ro anglosferă (Anglophone realm) · da anglosfæren (Anglophone realm)