Germanophile

[jer-man-uh-fahyl]

noun

1. a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.

Germanophile

/ dʒɜːˌmænəˈfɪlɪə, dʒɜːˈmænəˌfaɪl /

noun

1. a person having admiration for or devotion to Germany and the Germans

Other Word Forms

• Germanophilia noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Germanophile¹

First recorded in 1860–65; Germano- + -phile

Example Sentences

The Nazis even infringed on cultural prerogatives claimed by Benito Mussolini’s fascist Italy, citing Germanophile philosopher Houston Steward Chamberlain’s claim that the German people, by right of Aryan blood passed down from the Greeks and Romans, were destined to revive the “lost ideal” of classical beauty.

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Schenker, who was born in Galicia, part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, was an ardent cultural Germanophile and given to dyspeptic diatribes.

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A chapter on early Black Wagnerians includes that ardent Germanophile, W.E.B.

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Ed, a Germanophile, despises both the Brexiteers and Trump; the American president, he avers, “is presiding over the systematic no-holds-barred Nazification of the United States.”

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“A Good German” relates the career of the ultraconservative 19th-century critic Wolfgang Menzel, who promulgated an intensely Germanophile literature that embraced xenophobia and racism.

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