grecophilia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "On November 21 Cecil L. Striker of Vassar College lectured on “Ottonian Architecture and Byzantium: the Nature of 11th Century Grecophilia.”"
- "Heinrich Heine’s Reception of German Grecophilia / The Function and Application of the Hellenic Tradition in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century"
- "Thus, the architects of the Greek Revival were not advocates of purity, whatever their protestations of Grecophilia."
- "Marx, in his own way, remained true to the traditional German Grecophilia in the spirit of Winckelmann, Goethe, and Hegel."
Etymology
From Greco- + -philia.