Home › Words › A › angliciseanglicise/ˈæŋɡlɪsaɪz/anglicise means to make English, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style.anglicise is pronounced /ˈæŋɡlɪsaɪz/.EtymologyFrom Latin anglic(us) + -ise.verbTo make English, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style.e.g.“Someone who is translating into English a German novel, the hero of which is named Heinrich, will leave the name as it is; he will not Anglicize it into Henry.” — 1970, W. H. Auden, A Certain World, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 267:To dub or translate into English.To become English.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.anglicanize 82% match — To anglicize. vs anglicise →anglicised 81% match — Made into a form similar to those commonly used by English speakers. vs anglicise →anglicisation 80% match — The process by which something or someone (usually a word) is made more English. Usually applied to language or culture. vs anglicise →anglify 77% match — To convert to English (language or culture); to anglicise. vs anglicise →anglicize 76% match — American and Oxford British English standard spelling of anglicise. vs anglicise →anglification 75% match — Anglicisation. vs anglicise →arabicise 73% match — To make Arabic, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style. vs anglicise →englishize 72% match — To make or become more English vs anglicise →