Belarusophone
Belarusophone adjective: speaking Belarusian.
Adjective
Belarusophone (not comparable)
- Speaking Belarusian.
- Belarusophone intellectual life seems to be blooming, an idea one might get from the announcement in the journal Frahmenty that brilliantly plays on myths of national origin and historical continuity and the names of canonical figures and contemporary actors of national revival: […]2004, Elena Gapova, “The Nation In Between; or, Why Intellectuals Do Things with Words”, in Sibelan Forrester, Magdalena J. Zaborowska, Elena Gapova, editors, Over the Wall/After the Fall...
Noun
Belarusophone (plural Belarusophones)
- One who speaks Belarusian.
- The “nationally conscious” as a political constituency approximately correspond with habitual Belarusophones (i.e. those who prefer Belarusian as their primary language of communication), who make up around 10 percent of the population.2004, Andrew Wilson, Clelia Rontoyanni, “Security or Prosperity?: Belarusian and Ukrainian Choices”, in Robert Legvold, Celeste A. Wallander, editors, Swords and Sustenance: The Economics of Security...
Forms of Belarusophone
| plural | Belarusophones |
|---|
Origin of Belarusophone
From Belarus + -o- + -phone.
Questions about Belarusophone
- What does Belarusophone mean?
- Belarusophone means speaking Belarusian.
- What part of speech is Belarusophone?
- Belarusophone can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near Belarusophone in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Belarusophone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “Belarusophone.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/belarusophone. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.