anglophile

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I guess that's what aggregate anglophile Americans expect, so they play into it.

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an admirer of England and things English

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noun

an admirer of England and things English

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Core meanings and parts of speech for anglophile.

noun

an admirer of England and things English

Example sentences

I guess that's what aggregate anglophile Americans expect, so they play into it.

Like francophile, anglophile, etc. Someone who cares about those cultures, has opinions.

My English teacher was a huge arsehole and great anglophile. He would throw the well-known phrases around like "sail a convict ship to Australia with a crew of ten", "the war was won on the playing fields of Eton" & so on.

The crime and apalling violence has led to many of the best and brightest fleeing the country for the UK and other anglophile countries. One of my classmates from Uni had his wife mudered in a most horriffic manner.

Edit: Commenting before coffee, I mixed up "anglophile" and "anglophone," intending the latter.

A not-so-subtly hidden and totally racist/anglophile question, designed to weed out people/cultures who don't historically follow England vs Australia cricket and know it's "legends". Upper middle class middle aged Englishman?

The anglophile Indian elite is surprisingly ignorant of what is going on in their own country. The anglophile Indian elite also controls many aspects of the country. This out-of-touch anglophile elite is the reason India is so dysfunctional, even more than other poor developing countries.