English-speaking world. (Redirected from Anglophone) Pie chart showing the percentage of native English speakers living in inner circle English-speaking countries. Native speakers are now substantially outnumbered worldwide by second-language speakers of English (not counted in this chart).
cosmopolitan - growing or occurring in many parts of the world; a cosmopolitan herb; cosmopolitan in distribution. widely distributed. bionomics, environmental science, ecology - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment.
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