philhellenism
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Etymology edit
< Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos, “friend, lover”) and ἑλληνισμός (hellēnismós, “hellenism”)
Noun edit
philhellenism (usually uncountable, plural philhellenisms)
- A 19th-century intellectual movement which supported the independence of Greece from the Ottoman Empire.
- Love of Greece or Greek culture.
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intellectual movement
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- “philhellenism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.