a person who speaks English, especially in countries where English is not the only language that is spoken 讲英语的人(尤指在英语非唯一语言的国家) Canada’s native anglophones 加拿大的母语英语者
Word Originearly 20th cent. (as a noun; rare before the 1960s): from Anglo- + -phone (see phone), on the pattern of francophone.