Grecophilia
Grecophilia noun: the love of the country, culture or people of Greece.
Noun
Grecophilia (uncountable)
- The love of the country, culture or people of Greece.
- On November 21 Cecil L. Striker of Vassar College lectured on “Ottonian Architecture and Byzantium: the Nature of 11th Century Grecophilia.”1949–1967, Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, page 53
- Heinrich Heine’s Reception of German Grecophilia / The Function and Application of the Hellenic Tradition in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century1951–1983, Castrum Peregrini
Examples of Grecophilia in a sentence
- Thus, the architects of the Greek Revival were not advocates of purity, whatever their protestations of Grecophilia.1957, Robert Winter, The Organic Principles in American Architectural Theory, page 49:
- Marx, in his own way, remained true to the traditional German Grecophilia in the spirit of Winckelmann, Goethe, and Hegel.1967, Peter Demetz, Marx, Engels, and the Poets: Origins of Marxist Literary Criticism, page 121:
Forms of Grecophilia
| alternative form | Graecophilia |
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Origin of Grecophilia
From Greco- + -philia.
Questions about Grecophilia
- What does Grecophilia mean?
- Grecophilia means the love of the country, culture or people of Greece.
- How do you use Grecophilia in a sentence?
- Thus, the architects of the Greek Revival were not advocates of purity, whatever their protestations of Grecophilia.
- What part of speech is Grecophilia?
- Grecophilia is a noun.
Words near Grecophilia in the dictionary
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