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Anglophilia

American  
[ang-gluh-fil-ee-uh] / ˌæŋ gləˈfɪl i ə /

noun

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


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Etymology

Origin of Anglophilia

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

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Anglophilia typically doesn’t survive repeated exposure to England.

From Washington Post Jun. 5, 2022

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.

From Salon Nov. 21, 2020

Anglophilia constitutes a major subset of escapist entertainment, and one to which, I confess, I am particularly susceptible.

From Slate May 22, 2020

Having come down with an acute case of quarantine Anglophilia — I’ve read P.G.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 2020

Chacko said that going to see The Sound of Music was an extended exercise in Anglophilia.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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