ˌanti-ˈBritishadj.
Hostile to the interests of Britain, opposed to the British.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > fear or dislike of other nations > [adjective] > specific nations
anti-Gallic1756
anti-Gallican1765
anti-American1773
anti-Britisha1845
Anglophobic1846
Anglophobian1847
Russophobist1867
Russophobic1875
Francophobe1890
Germanophobe1891
Anglophobiac1894
Anglophobe1901
Sinophobic1948
mishellenic1958
a1845 S. Smith Fragm. Irish Rom. Cath. Ch. in Wks. (1859) II. 334/1 Such a piece of anti-British villany.
1898 Daily News 4 Oct. 4/5 Germany has withdrawn her anti-British support from the Transvaal.
1902 Daily Chron. 10 Mar. 7/5 The result is that Dutch Reformed ministers are, as a rule, anti-British.
Derivatives
anti-Britisher n. one who is antagonistic to the British or British interests.
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1902 Daily Chron. 15 Sept. 5/3 Commandant Wolmarans,..an extremely bitter anti-Britisher.
anti-Britishism n. a spirit of hostility towards the British.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > fear or dislike of other nations > [noun] > specific nations
Anglophobia1793
Gallophobia1803
anti-Gallicanism1805
Scotophobia1828
Russophobia1836
anti-Americanism1844
Germanophobia1852
Francophobia1870
Russophobism1875
Sinophobia1876
Teutophobia1876
Judaeophobia1881
Teutonophobia1886
Germophobia1887
Teutophobism1904
anti-Britishism1909
Sovietophobia1955
1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay iii. iv, The captain helped him to express his own malignant Anti-Britishism.
1928 Observer 18 Mar. 17/4 There is no anti-Britishism here, but I am puzzled by the objection to our being pro-American.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online November 2010).
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