Meanings
nounHugophile (plural Hugophiles)
plural Hugophiles
- An admirer of French writer Victor Hugo (1802–1885).
But when Wilde did finally get to visit his idol's home (Swinburne, another Hugophile had been a recent visitor) Hugo promptly fell asleep.¹⁶ He was, after all, quite ancient: eighty-one.
2005, John Stokes, “Peacocks and pearls: Oscar Wilde and Sarah Bernhardt”, in The French Actress and Her English Audience, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 143
Origin
- Frenchhugophile
- EnglishHugophile
Borrowed from French hugophile, equivalent to Hugo + -phile.
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Hugophile. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hugophile
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