Anglophile
pronunciation
How to pronounce Anglophile in British English:
UK [ˈæŋgləʊfaɪl]
How to pronounce Anglophile in American English:
US [ˈæŋgloʊfaɪl]
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- Noun:
- an admirer of England and things English
Word Origin
- Anglophile (adj.)
- 1864, in reference to France, from Anglo- + -phile. Both Anglomania (1787) and Anglophobia (1793) are first attested in writings of Thomas Jefferson.
Example
- 1. Mr salmond calls himself the most anglophile figure in scottish politics .
- 2. His investments also suggest that he is something of an anglophile .
- 3. He 's an anglophile who claims to have seen millwall football club play 40 times .
- 4. Given the impasse on the hill , the occasional anglophile will ask , could not america borrow something from a system that seems somehow to combine civility with the ability to get hard things done ?
- 5. He is part african populist , prepared to snatch agricultural land from commercial farmers-and thereby destroying one of africa 's most successful economies-yet part anglophile gentleman .