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Young Englanders

Young Englanders is the plural of Young Englander.

Meaning of Young Englander

Noun

Young Englander (plural Young Englanders)

  1. (UK, historical) A member of Young England, a group of neofeudalist 19th-century Tories.
    • In a related but more obviously nostalgic way the Young Englanders looked back to an earlier England: Disraeli lamented in his 1845 novel Sybil, or the Two Nations, that “there is no community in England” and proposed the medievalising of the aristocracy as a solution.2015, David Matthews, Medievalism: A Critical History, →ISBN, page 56

Questions about Young Englanders

What is Young Englanders the plural of?
Young Englanders is the plural of Young Englander.

Words near Young Englanders in the dictionary

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