Meaning of Romanophile | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who has a love of Ancient Rome.
2. One who has a love of Romania.
3. One who has a love of the Roma people.

Examples

“Coerced British workers had to have built the grand buildings and roads that so impressed later Romanophiles.”

“A Romanophile, the Greek historian Polybius intended his History to explain Rome's dominance over the civilized world.”

“Its first prelate was the Ukrainian-born Bukovinian Romanophile and avid promoter of all things Romanian, Metropolitan Nectari Kotlearciuc […]”

“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 didn't make his "first acquaintance with [Gypsies] in the pages of George Borrow".”

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