Anglophile
Americannoun
noun
adjective
Other Word Forms
- Anglophilia noun
- Anglophiliac adjective
- Anglophilism noun
Etymology
Origin of Anglophile
Explanation
If you're a huge fan of England, you can call yourself an Anglophile. Anglophiles love English culture, accents, food, and people. If you're American but prefer British spellings of words, like colour and fibre, or have all the British monarchs memorized, or insist on ordering things like "bubble and squeak" when you go to restaurants, you're an Anglophile, a person who loves all things English or British. The word first referred to French fans of England during the 1860s, its roots a combination of the Latin Angli, "the English" and the Greek philos, "loving."
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Example Sentences
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The bank and noted Anglophile Dimon like to point to their English roots, even throwing a birthday party for King Charles III last year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
In a statement issued to the BBC, the Anglophile Channel confirmed his death "with great sadness".
From BBC • Jan. 3, 2023
Consequently, the South’s Anglophile aristocrats began mimicking the British fad for jousting tournaments and talking constantly about chivalry.
From Slate • Dec. 29, 2022
I wasn’t alone; I imagine “Matilda” was catnip for a lot of bookish kids with latent Anglophile tendencies and dreams of overthrowing their bullies and escaping humdrum reality.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2022
Ifemelu and Jane laughed when they discovered how similar their childhoods in Grenada and Nigeria had been, with Enid Blyton books and Anglophile teachers and fathers who worshipped the BBC World Service.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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