Young Englander

noun

A member of Young England, a group of neofeudalist 19th-century Tories.

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Meanings

nounYoung Englander (plural Young Englanders)

plural Young Englanders

  1. UKhistoricalgovernmentA 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

Origin

From Young England + -er.

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APA

Young Englander. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Young%20Englander

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