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Romanophiles

Romanophiles is the plural of Romanophile.

Meaning of Romanophile

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
    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

Questions about Romanophiles

What is Romanophiles the plural of?
Romanophiles is the plural of Romanophile.

Words near Romanophiles in the dictionary

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

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