white anglo-saxon protestant

1. 1.

   a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination

   SynonymsWASP

   BroaderWhiteProtestant

Questions about white anglo-saxon protestant

What does white anglo-saxon protestant mean?

white anglo-saxon protestant means "a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination".

What is another word for white anglo-saxon protestant?

Close synonyms include WASP. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is white anglo-saxon protestant a common word?

white anglo-saxon protestant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.