anglophile

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who strongly admires England or British culture and customs

   The anglophile filled his library with English novels and histories.

2. 2
   adj

   showing strong admiration for England or British culture

   Her anglophile tastes extended from tea rituals to English landscape painting.

Simplified etymology

Anglophile combines the name of the English, from the Angles, with Greek philo-, ‘loving’. It is recorded from the mid-19th century.

Formed from Anglo-, referring to England or the English, and -phile, 'one who loves,' probably with influence from French anglophile. The noun came to denote an admirer of English or, more broadly, British culture.

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