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Romanophile

Romanophile noun: one who has a love of Ancient Rome.

Noun (1)

Romanophile (plural Romanophiles)

  1. One who has a love of Ancient Rome.
    • Coerced British workers had to have built the grand buildings and roads that so impressed later Romanophiles.2010, Timothy Parsons, The Rule of Empires, page 50
    • A Romanophile, the Greek historian Polybius intended his History to explain Rome's dominance over the civilized world.2012, Jon E. Lewis, Rome: The Autobiography
    Antonyms:
    Romanophobe

Noun (2)

Romanophile (plural Romanophiles)

  1. One who has a love of Romania.
    • Its first prelate was the Ukrainian-born Bukovinian Romanophile and avid promoter of all things Romanian, Metropolitan Nectari Kotlearciuc […]2010, Paul R. Magocsi, A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples, page 644
    Antonyms:
    Romanophobe

Noun (3)

Romanophile (plural Romanophiles)

  1. One who has a love of the Roma people.
    • George Borrow (1803-1881) has stood as the acknowledged source of inspiration for countless Romanophiles (as well as Romanophobes) ever since his literary heyday in the 19th century; in fact Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald saw himself as quite "unfashionable" (1944:x) because he was one of the few who...1997, Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker, Khristo Kyuchukov, The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, page 199
    Antonyms:
    Romanophobe

Antonyms of Romanophile

Forms of Romanophile

pluralRomanophiles

Origin of Romanophile

From Romano- (“Rome”) + -phile.

From Romano- (“Romania”) + -phile.

From Romano- (“Romani”) + -phile.

Questions about Romanophile

What does Romanophile mean?
Romanophile means one who has a love of Ancient Rome.
What part of speech is Romanophile?
Romanophile is a noun.
What is the plural of Romanophile?
The plural of Romanophile is Romanophiles.

Words near Romanophile in the dictionary

  1. Romanological
  2. Romanologist
  3. Romanologists
  4. Romanology
  5. Romanomania
  6. Romanophile
  7. Romanophiles
  8. Romanophilia
  9. Romanophilic
  10. Romanophilism
  11. Romanophobe

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