Surely *some* wordsmiths must love America[ns]?

People who like/admire English or French (the languages and/or the people and their culture) are easily identified as Anglophiles or Francophiles.

I'm not sure there are so many Germanophiles, but that might be because they're diluted by the presence of Teutophiles.

My problem is on the (not ridiculously rare) occasions when I want to express positive feeling towards American people (or their linguistic peculiarities), I don't have a similar word.

Am I missing something obvious? Or is there a little-known term?

Solution 1:

Can't find a dictionary word but these neologisms should all be understandable:

• Philamerican, á la philhellene.

• Americanophile, while this does not seem to have a dictionary entry, it does appear in print a few times.

Solution 2:

Americophile (plural Americophiles)

1. a lover of the United States and/or their way of life

Admittedly it's only Wiktionary, but Americophile follows the general rule for constructing such words (i.e., Latinish/Greekish-sounding root ending in "o" + "phile"), produces about 9000 results on Google, and has a reasonably pleasant ring to it. If we're voting on the question, Americophile gets mine.

(The word for people who have a love/hate attitude toward the United States is, of course, "people.")