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felophile

felophile noun: synonym of ailurophile.

Noun

felophile (plural felophiles)

  1. Synonym of ailurophile.
    • Sir,—In case no more experienced felophile answers Mr Blakiston’s delightful letter in your issue of last Friday, I write to say that my cat reacts with similar abandon to the gift of an olive.1934 August 29, “The Cat and the Olive”, in Douglas Woodruff, editor, Dear Sir: A Selection of Letters to the Editor of the Times, London: Methuen & Co., published 1936, page 321
    • Feline pesematology (from the Greek pesema, for “fall”), the science of falling cats, may not strike you initially as the stuff for which Nobel Prizes are won. But it is undoubtedly of emotional importance, as any concerned felophile (cat lover) knows.1989 August, Jared Diamond, “How Cats Survive Falls from New York Skyscrapers”, in Natural History, page 20, column 2
    Synonyms:
    ailurophile

Examples of felophile in a sentence

  • I have not dared to say before, but I am not a felophile.2001, Jim Crace, The Devil’s Larder, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 67:
  • In fact, Father turned into a felophile, or whatever is the term for a cat-doter.2011, F. Nigel Hepper, “Cat in a Bag and a Lakeland Terrier”, in Life on a Lake District Smallholding: Before and During the Second World...
  • If instead you measure brain mass as a percentage of body mass, cats win by a whisker. / Felophiles should not gloat yet.2020, New Scientist, “Dogs vs cats: The great pet showdown”, in Cats vs Dogs: Misbehaving Mammals, Intellectual Insects, Flatulent Fish and...

Synonyms of felophile

Forms of felophile

pluralfelophiles

Origin of felophile

From Latin fēlēs + -o- + -phile.

Questions about felophile

What does felophile mean?
Felophile means synonym of ailurophile.
How do you use felophile in a sentence?
I have not dared to say before, but I am not a felophile.
What part of speech is felophile?
Felophile is a noun.
What is the plural of felophile?
The plural of felophile is felophiles.

Words near felophile in the dictionary

  1. felony stops
  2. felony traffic stop
  3. felony traffic stops
  4. Feloop
  5. felopdipine
  6. felophile
  7. felophiles
  8. feloprentan
  9. felos de se
  10. felos-de-se
  11. Felpham

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