Definition of Anglophilia

1. Noun. Admiration for Britain and British customs.

Generic synonyms: Admiration, Esteem
Derivative terms: Anglophilic
Antonyms: Anglophobia

Definition of Anglophilia

1. Noun. The love of the country, culture or people of England. ¹

2. Noun. (alternative capitalization of Anglophilia) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anglophilia

Anglo-Saxon America
Anglo-Saxon deity
Anglo-Saxondom
Anglo-Saxons
Anglo-catholic
Anglocentric
Anglocentrically
Anglocentrism
Anglodom
Anglomania
Anglomaniac
Anglomaniacs
Anglomanias
Anglophile
Anglophiles
Anglophilia (current term)
Anglophilic
Anglophobe
Anglophobes
Anglophobia
Anglophobic
Anglophone
Anglophones
Angloromani
Anglosphere
Angola
Angolan
Angolan capital
Angolan monetary unit
Angolans

Literary usage of Anglophilia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Republic, If You Can Keep It: The Foundation of the American Presidency by Michael P. Riccards (1987)
"457- 482; and his, "The Jacobin Phrenzy: The Menace of Monarchy, Plutocracy and Anglophilia, 1789-1798," Review of Politics, 22 (January 1959), ..."

2. Rural Politics and the Collapse of Pennsylvania Federalism by Kenneth W. Keller (1982)
"See also Marshall Smelser, "The Jacobin Phrenzy: The Menace of Monarchy, Plutocracy, and Anglophilia, 1789-1798," The Review of Politics (1959):-. ..."

3. Rise to World Power: Selected Letters of Whitelaw Reid, 1895-1912 by Whitelaw Reid, David R. Contosta, Jessica R. Hawthorne (1986)
"Those who have accused Reid of excessive anglophilia should recognize that until the mid-nineties both the Tribune and its editor commonly adopted a ..."

4. A Melancholy Scene of Devastation: The Public Response to the 1793 by J. Worth Estes, Billy G. Smith (1997)
"... Smelser, "The Jacobin Phrenzy: The Menace of Monarchy, Plutocracy, and Anglophilia, 1789-1798," Review of Politics 21 (1959): 239-58; and John R. Howe, ..."

5. The Princess & the Patriot: Ekaterina Dashkova, Benjamin Franklin, and the by Sue Ann Prince (2006)
"... first sojourn in England gave concrete form to her previously abstract Anglophilia. In the introduction to her Journey she wrote: "England impressed me ..."

6. The Tale of a Tour in Macedonia by George Frederick Abbott (1903)
"An extreme and, in its expression, rather touching instance of this feeling of Anglophilia came under my notice at Salonica. Some of the English residents ..."

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