Anglophile
/ˈaŋɡlə(ʊ)fʌɪl
/noun
A person who is fond of or greatly admires England or Britain.Mr and Mrs Duren were Anglophiles, who spent many holidays in England, walking in the Lake District and Rutland as well as the Cotswolds....
- Behind these groups, but of lesser importance, are a number of capitalists, Anglophiles, and intellectuals who believe that the future of mankind depends upon the domination of the British empire.
- ‘There are still a lot of Anglophiles around,’ one US radio plugger told me last week.
adjective
Fond or greatly admiring England or Britain: the Anglophile General Marshall Holland certainly lives up to its reputation of being Anglophile...
- In the relatively compressed cast of an upper-middle class family of Anglophile Indians and a few members of their township, there is quite enough material to explore ideas of the divisions within people and their cultures.
- However, Jerusalem - William Blake's hauntingly Anglophile anthem - has fallen foul of the Church of Scotland hierarchy because it is seen as too much of a homage to the Auld Enemy.
- The world's most Anglophile country is Nigeria.
Derivatives
Anglophilia
/ noun ...- In 1807 his Anglophilia suffered the shock of a morally questionable British attack on Copenhagen and the Danish fleet, undertaken to prevent a French seizure of Danish vessels.
- If in England it rallied a demoralized citizenry, here in America it validated the Anglophilia of the educated classes and gave British imperialism a good odor.
- One young German conservative historian I met took refuge in Anglophilia - his England, of course, being an England of the past.