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toxophilite

/tɒkˈsɒfɪlʌɪt/

toxophilite adjective: pertaining to archery.

Adjective

toxophilite

  1. Pertaining to archery.
    • What causes them to labour at pianoforte sonatas, and to learn four songs from a fashionable master at a guinea a lesson, and to play the harp if they have handsome arms and neat elbows, and to wear Lincoln Green toxophilite hats and feathers, but that they may bring down some "desirable" young man...1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

Noun

toxophilite (plural toxophilites)

  1. Someone keen on or an expert at archery; a lover or practitioner of archery.
    • Here the gardens of the place encroached with a somewhat wide sweep upon the paddock, and gave ample room for the doings of the toxophilites. Miss Thorne got together such daughters of Diana as could bend a bow, and marshalled them to the targets.1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, →ISBN, page 100

toxophilite meaning in Tamil

toxophilite in Tamil

வில் வேடிக்கையன், விற்கலைபயிலுநன், வில்லாளர், விற்கலைஞன், கலையார்வலர், விற்கலை பயிலுநன்

Forms of toxophilite

pluraltoxophilites

Origin of toxophilite

From Toxophilus, the title of a 1545 book by Roger Ascham intended to mean ‘lover of the bow’, from Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon, “bow”) + φίλος (phílos, “love”); equivalent to τόξον (tóxon) + -philite.

Words formed from toxophilite

Questions about toxophilite

What does toxophilite mean?
Toxophilite means pertaining to archery.
What is toxophilite in Tamil?
Toxophilite in Tamil is வில் வேடிக்கையன், விற்கலைபயிலுநன், வில்லாளர். See Toxophilite meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is toxophilite?
Toxophilite can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce toxophilite?
Toxophilite is pronounced /tɒkˈsɒfɪlʌɪt/.

Words near toxophilite in the dictionary

  1. toxophil
  2. toxophile
  3. toxophiliac
  4. toxophiliacs
  5. toxophilism
  6. toxophilite
  7. toxophilites
  8. toxophilitic
  9. toxophilous
  10. toxophily
  11. toxophore

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toxophilite (page history and authors); toxophilite (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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