1 : to make English in quality or characteristics. 2 : to adapt (a foreign word, name, or phrase) to English usage: such as. a : to alter to a characteristic English form, sound, or spelling. b : to convert (a name) to its English equivalent anglicize Juan as John.

What are examples of Anglicization?

Throughout history, places that were colonized by England were forced to anglicize many of their place names — one example is Kolkata, India, which was anglicized to "Calcutta" and changed back in 2001. Anglicize comes from the Latin root Angli, or "the English."

How do you spell Anglicization?

Anglicisation (or anglicization or anglification) refers to the process by which a place or person becomes influenced by English culture or British culture, or a process of cultural and/or linguistic change in which something non-English becomes English.