romanophile
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3ADJ.
avid
VERB + ROMANOPHILE
ukrainian-born
ROMANOPHILE + NOUN
greek, historian, promoter
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noun
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.
A Romanophile, the Greek historian Polybius intended his History to explain Rome's dominance over the civilized world.
noun
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 […]
noun
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 didn't make his "first acquaintance with [Gypsies] in the pages of George Borrow".
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4Coerced British workers had to have built the grand buildings and roads that so impressed later Romanophiles.
WiktionaryA Romanophile, the Greek historian Polybius intended his History to explain Rome's dominance over the civilized world.
WiktionaryIts first prelate was the Ukrainian-born Bukovinian Romanophile and avid promoter of all things Romanian, Metropolitan Nectari Kotlearciuc […]
WiktionaryGeorge 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 Ves
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