English Dictionary

Definition of “English-speaking”

English-speaking (ˈɪŋɡlɪʃˌspiːkɪŋ) 

Definitions

adjective

  1. speaking English as a mother tongue
  2. able to speak English through having learned it

Example Sentences Including 'English-speaking'

Few of the English-speaking visitors had much French, but the Frau Doktor was more than fit to cope.
Curzon, Clare The Quest for K
For decades after 1945, English-speaking elites invoked the Second World War whenever they needed another war to fight.
Spiked (2005)
France and Germany already have such quotas, but rappers and R&B singers there do not compete directly with English-speaking Americans.
Times, Sunday Times (2001)
Or, in the case of English-speaking principals, the unease of wondering whether you both understood the same thing.
Babson, Marian Death in Fashion
Students visit restaurants and go into stores to get familiar with the English-speaking community.
CBC (2004)
The embassy has arranged for an English-speaking lawyer to be present at the station when the police question you.
MacNeill, Alastair The Devil's Door
There are not many English-speaking people out there," Menon said.
Samachar (2005)
There has always been very little contact between the German- and English-speaking residents, even before the Second World War.
Tomas Graves TUNING UP AT DAWN: A Memoir of Music and Majorca (2004)
They are spread across all ages with no significant variation between men and women or different English-speaking ethnic groups.
Sun, News of the World (2004)

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