Definition of Anglomania in English:
Anglomania
noun aŋɡləʊˈmeɪnɪəˌæŋɡloʊˈmeɪniə
mass nounExcessive admiration of English customs.
Example sentencesExamples
- But it really came into fashion when Anglomania was at its height around the turn of the century.
- It was furthered too by the Anglomania of St Petersburg's social elite.
- The Romantic movement and the growth of a native Russian theatre mark a high period of Anglomania and the zenith of Shakespeare's popularity in tragedy.
- Numerous conflicts, from the 14c Hundred Years War to the 18-19c colonial and revolutionary wars, did not prevent a mutual social and intellectual interest, accounting for Gallomania in Britain and Anglomania in France.
- However, Anglomania prevalent at the time also made Newton's acceptance in France easier.
- Some of the gloss was taken from the image of Great Britain when her colonies rebelled, and Anglomania was partially eclipsed by enthusiasm for all things American.
- In the mid-eighteenth century a long period of Anglomania began in Russia.
Derivatives
noun aŋɡləʊˈmeɪnɪak
A second theme of the Anglomaniacs was Britain's status as the outstanding example of a relentlessly entrepreneurial society.
Example sentencesExamples
- In his masterful study of ‘The American Language,’ the incomparable Mencken, referred to these purists as ‘schoolmarms, male and female,’ and called them, in a typical Menckenism, Anglomaniacs.
- An English teacher in Germany sent a Letter to the Editor saying something like: ‘I get twice as much paid in Germany as I would get in England as a teacher, but England is still infinitely the better country to live in’ In the 70s I was so much of an Anglomaniac that I would have fully subscribed to that view.
- Progressives in Paris formed an informal English fanclub, while a popular comedy of the 1760s guyed the Anglomaniac who had ‘Hogard’ and ‘Hindel’ on his lips, drank only tea, read nothing but Shakespeare and Pope and declared: ‘The teachers of mankind have been born in London, and it is from them we must take lessons.’
- Marvelous, too, in that it seems to have reinforced in them a sense of their own Jewishness - there was no arriviste pretension to being other than what they were, and it was not really inconsistent that they should have been both Anglomaniacs and dedicated Zionists.
Definition of Anglomania in US English:
Anglomania
nounˌaNGɡlōˈmānēəˌæŋɡloʊˈmeɪniə
Excessive admiration of English customs.
Example sentencesExamples
- But it really came into fashion when Anglomania was at its height around the turn of the century.
- In the mid-eighteenth century a long period of Anglomania began in Russia.
- Numerous conflicts, from the 14c Hundred Years War to the 18-19c colonial and revolutionary wars, did not prevent a mutual social and intellectual interest, accounting for Gallomania in Britain and Anglomania in France.
- It was furthered too by the Anglomania of St Petersburg's social elite.
- The Romantic movement and the growth of a native Russian theatre mark a high period of Anglomania and the zenith of Shakespeare's popularity in tragedy.
- Some of the gloss was taken from the image of Great Britain when her colonies rebelled, and Anglomania was partially eclipsed by enthusiasm for all things American.
- However, Anglomania prevalent at the time also made Newton's acceptance in France easier.