Anglophilia

[ang-gluh-fil-ee-uh]

noun

1. a strong admiration or enthusiasm for England, its people, and things English.

Other Word Forms

• Anglophiliac adjective
• Anglophilic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Anglophilia¹

First recorded in 1895–90; Anglo- + -philia

Example Sentences

Yet their overt Anglophilia is a testament to the capaciousness of identity, to the back-and-forth desires of assimilation and distinction.

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McCarthy would mock their cosmopolitan associations, their Anglophilia, their gilded careers as international financiers and the heads of major corporations.

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I’ve spent the last four decades trying to understand my Anglophilia.

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“What should have been an easy cash-in — cute pups with a splash of Anglophilia thrown in — has somehow morphed into something deeply unpleasant, and in no way suitable for children,” the Independent wrote.

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That should have been a clue to the extent of her Anglophilia, I now realize, along with her emphatic insistence that her children "speak the Queen's English" whenever we'd lapse into slang.

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