philhellenism

English

Alternative forms

• Philhellenism

Etymology

< Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos, “friend, lover”) and ἑλληνισμός (hellēnismós, “hellenism”)

Noun

philhellenism (usually uncountable, plural philhellenisms)

1. A 19th-century intellectual movement which supported the independence of Greece from the Ottoman Empire.
2. Love of Greece or Greek culture.

Related terms

• philhellene
• philhellenic
• Philhellenist
• Hellenophile
• Hellenophilia
• Hellenophobe
• Hellenophobic

Translations

intellectual movement

• Finnish: filhellenismi
• Polish: filhellenizm (pl) m

References

• “philhellenism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.