Cymrophone

C3Y4M3R1O1P3H4O1N1E1

adjective

Welsh-speaking.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

adjectiveCymrophone (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWelsh-speaking.

    I'd like to put my bid forth as guessing Nigel is one of the "last of his kind" dyed in the wool Welsh Anglophone Conservative, almost as rare a beasty as his Cymrophone counterparts.

    1998 February 19, RJones6901, “Re: Help please: Non-Welsh-speaking teaching posts in Wales?”, in soc.culture.welsh (Usenet)
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    The Tudor revival of interest in medieval Welsh history produced not only further manuscript copies of the Welsh Life, but also a retranslation into Latin for the benefit of non-Cymrophone scholars.

    2002, C. P. Lewis, “Gruffudd ap Cynan and the Reality and Representation of Exile”, in Exile in the Middle Ages, →ISBN, page 42

    Synonyms: Cambrophone

nounCymrophone (plural Cymrophones)

plural Cymrophones

  1. A speaker of the Welsh language.

    Three hundred years earlier, when 90 per cent of the population spoke the language, it and the identity it stood for was strongest 'in the rural counties of north and west Wales'. This essential structure had not changed, though the proportion of Cymrophones was much reduced [...]

    1999, Murray Pittock, Celtic Identity and the British Image, →ISBN, page 118

    Synonyms: Cambrophone

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveWelsh-speaking.

nounA speaker of the Welsh language.

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