Anglophile
/ˈæŋ.ɡlə.faɪl/noun
A person who admires or is strongly interested in England, English people, or English culture.
Did you know?Anglophile is a modern learned formation built from Latinized Angli- and Greek -phile, a classic example of how English borrows prestige from both Rome and Greece to name identity and desire.
Etymological Timeline
Old English
OE
Engle
“the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who settled in Britain”
Late Latin
Latin
Angli
“the Angles, English people”
Ancient Greek
Greek
-philos
“loving, fond of”
19th Century
English
Anglophile
“a person with a fondness or admiration for England or English things”
Modern English
English
Anglophile
“a person who especially admires England, English people, or English culture”
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