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Anglomania

[ ang-gluh-mey-nee-uh, -meyn-yuh ]

noun

  1. an intense admiration of, interest in, or tendency to imitate English institutions, manners, customs, etc.


Anglomania

/ ˌæŋɡəʊˈɪɪə /

noun

  1. excessive respect for English customs, etc
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Derived Forms

  • ˌԲˈԾˌ, nounadjective
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Other Word Forms

  • ···Ծ· [ang-gloh-, mey, -nee-ak], noun
  • ···Ծ··al [ang-gloh-m, uh, -, nahy, -, uh, -k, uh, l], adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Anglomania1

An Americanism dating back to 1780–90; Anglo- + mania
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Example Sentences

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Buruma used the letters in an earlier book, “Anglomania: A European Love Affair.”

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Though she is not Scottish, Westwood also has history with tartan, famously creating her own pattern and clan for her 1993 Anglomania collection.

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Curators for the Met were acknowledged to have been customers of Easton and displayed items purchased from him for its Anglomania show in 2006.

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Lowell was so heartily cosmopolitan that American newspapers accused him of Anglomania—which proves their provincialism but acquits him.

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Anglomania which distinguished the time was nowhere more strongly shown than in the cast and direction of its philosophical speculations.

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