Made into a form similar to that used by the English.
Used in a Sentence
anglicised
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for anglicised.
Editorial note
Unfortunately this is not a reversible process - you can't look at a modern anglicised name and guess what the Gaelic is, in general.
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Parts of speech1
Quick take
Made into a form similar to that used by the English.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of anglicised gathered in one view.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for anglicised.
adjective
Made into a form similar to that used by the English.
Example sentences
Unfortunately this is not a reversible process - you can't look at a modern anglicised name and guess what the Gaelic is, in general.
There are enough to go around and many of them are short and can be anglicised (e.g.
My father and his parents emigrated from Germany, Anglicised their name and switched to English.
Modern English is full of loan words, or anglicised words from a foreign root.
I guess a lot of the English-speaking world has (mis)appropriated the anglicised name of the football club?
Language in public space here is so anglicised that it gets embarrassing sometimes.
Kind of a shame that diaeresis and respelling aren’t used in English much anymore, else it’d properly be spelled matë or Anglicised as mattay.
For example, throughout Scotland placenames are a mixture of old Gaelic, modern Gaelic and Norse, and then there are the Anglicised versions on top.
At least with aluminium the US spelling is the original spelling, it was just anglicised with an -ium ending to fit in with the other elements.
The Disney name is a kind of anglicised contraction of d'Isigny (literally: from Isigny) which was the origin of some of Roy and Walt Disney ancestors.
It was mostly feudal, with an anglicised (or effectively English) aristocracy and peasantry, operating in basically the same way that they had done in the Middle Ages.
Because Mark is probably an anglicised asian name.
Quote examples
The name is likely an anglicised version of "klocki" just meaning "blocks" in Polish.
Your examples are not consistent dialectically, in my dialect and many related dialects (Northeastern Irish, Scottish and Northern English) “divorsay” is anglicised and pronounced “divorsee”.
It may be related to the term "the Pale" which referred to the better controlled more Anglicised part of Ireland around Dublin, but there isn't enough evidence to be sure of this.
From the wiki article ""lacking command" or "weakness", occasionally transliterated as acrasia or Anglicised as acrasy or acracy) is a lack of self-control, or acting against one's better judgment."
Proper noun examples
Anglicised names are historically grandfathered.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use anglicised in a sentence?
Unfortunately this is not a reversible process - you can't look at a modern anglicised name and guess what the Gaelic is, in general.
What does anglicised mean?
Made into a form similar to that used by the English.
What part of speech is anglicised?
anglicised is commonly used as adjective.