gallophone
/ˈɡæl.ə.fəʊn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative spelling of Gallophone.
adj
Describing a speaker of French or their culture
Example Sentences
- "The Valle d'Aosta also remained French because he had delcared that to be its official language; and he appointed only Gallophone representatives […]"
- "Anglophone and Gallophone communities there began an intensifiation of the long-standing concern for the role of education – and, hence, Symbol Systems Access – which we see in the world's major civilizations, such as the Chinese and the Greco-Roman."
- "[…] [T]o write as a native of some gallophone provincial capital, Grenoble, Clermont-Ferrand, Annecy, yet in a language that would be puzzling to a resident even of Rouen, to speak nothing of further away."
- "The remarks of the Gallophone scholar Pascale Bourgain make interesting reading."
- "My French is much too limited and pedestrian to comprehend, let alone translate, the nuances of your piece, so all I can do is tell you what it seems to evoke (from some dim ancestral recess inhabited by my Gallophone forebears) that meshes with my original feelings:"
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈɡæl.ə.fəʊn/