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Nipponophile

Nipponophile noun: one who loves Japan or Japanese culture.

Noun

Nipponophile (plural Nipponophiles)

  1. One who loves Japan or Japanese culture.
    • […] Strauss had become something of a Nipponophile and had returned to Japan for a sabbatical in 1958.1997, Errol C. Friedberg, Correcting the Blueprint of Life: An Historical Account of the Discovery of DNA Repair Mechanisms, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, →ISBN, page 114
    • CALL ME A NIPPONOPHILE—a secret admirer of Japan, a worshiper from afar.2003, William Illsey Atkinson, Nanocosm: Nanotechnology and the Big Changes Coming from the Inconceivably Small, Amacom, →ISBN, page 213
    Synonyms:
    Japanophile
  2. An advocate of Japanese thought or culture.

Synonyms of Nipponophile

Antonyms

Forms of Nipponophile

pluralNipponophiles

Origin of Nipponophile

From Nippono- + -phile.

Questions about Nipponophile

What does Nipponophile mean?
Nipponophile means one who loves Japan or Japanese culture.
What part of speech is Nipponophile?
Nipponophile is a noun.
What is the plural of Nipponophile?
The plural of Nipponophile is Nipponophiles.

Words near Nipponophile in the dictionary

  1. nipponize
  2. nipponized
  3. nipponizes
  4. nipponizing
  5. Nippono-
  6. Nipponophile
  7. Nipponophiles
  8. Nipponophilia
  9. Nipponophilic
  10. Nipponophobe
  11. Nipponophobes

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