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Anglomania

[ ang-gluh-mey-nee-uh, -meyn-yuh ]

noun

  1. an intense admiration of, interest in, or tendency to imitate English institutions, manners, customs, etc.


Anglomania

/ ˌæŋɡləʊˈmeɪnɪə /

noun

  1. excessive respect for English customs, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌAngloˈmaniˌac, nounadjective
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Other Words From

  • An·glo·ma·ni·ac [ang-gloh-, mey, -nee-ak], noun
  • An·glo·ma·ni·ac·al [ang-gloh-m, uh, -, nahy, -, uh, -k, uh, l], adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Anglomania1

An Americanism dating back to 1780–90; Anglo- + mania
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Example Sentences

Buruma used the letters in an earlier book, “Anglomania: A European Love Affair.”

Though she is not Scottish, Westwood also has history with tartan, famously creating her own pattern and clan for her 1993 Anglomania collection.

Curators for the Met were acknowledged to have been customers of Easton and displayed items purchased from him for its Anglomania show in 2006.

Lowell was so heartily cosmopolitan that American newspapers accused him of Anglomania—which proves their provincialism but acquits him.

Anglomania which distinguished the time was nowhere more strongly shown than in the cast and direction of its philosophical speculations.

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