arctophile
English
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Etymology
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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”) + English -phile.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɑːktəfaɪl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑɹktəˌfaɪl/
- Hyphenation: arc‧to‧phile
Noun
[edit]arctophile (plural arctophiles)
- One who has a fondness for teddy bears, usually a collector of them. [from 1960s]
- 1969 October 15, Gillian Tindall, “The bear facts”, in The Guardian (Woman’s Guardian section), London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2, “Love letters”:
- On the other hand I am appalled by the ways these "arctophiles" seem to feel for their childhood friends not an informed, reminiscent emotion, but exactly what they felt at 6 with no development at all.
Related terms
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[edit]one who has a fondness for teddy bears
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “arctophile, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
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teddy bear on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “arctophile, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”) + -phile.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]arctophile m or f by sense (plural arctophiles)
- arctophile (one who has a fondness for teddy bears)
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