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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