Anglophobe
Americannoun
noun
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a person who hates or fears England or its people
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a person who hates or fears Canadian Anglophones
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Anglophobe
Explanation
An anglophobe is someone who deeply dislikes England or English people. If your friend refuses to buy a plane ticket to France because the flight stops in London on the way, it might be because she's an anglophobe. If you distrust someone purely because of his British accent, you're an anglophobe, and if you refuse to buy products made in England just because you hate the country, you're also an anglophobe. A British politician might accuse a Scot who favors independence from the UK of being an anglophobe. The word has two roots, the Latin angli, "the English," and the Greek phobia, or "a panicked fear of."
Vocabulary lists containing anglophobe
Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: phob
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Example Sentences
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When he has no arguments he loses his head and calls me Anglophobe.
From Economist • Oct. 19, 2012
Forecasting his mission, people called him "Lord Holy Fox" and quoted Anglophobe Quincy Howe: "England expects every American to do his duty."
From Time Magazine Archive
Smuts, who had fought the British, lived to become a British field marshal and one of the stout pillars of the British Commonwealth;* Malan, who never heard a shot fired, is a bitter Anglophobe.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the snubs they suffered from stuffy upperclass Britons on their gala transatlantic honeymoon that helped turn him into an Anglophobe.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Anglophobe grand dukes, the fire-eaters of the Admiralty, are all his sworn allies.
From The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War by Upward, Allen
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