Pokéfan

noun

A fan or enthusiast of Pokémon.

Meanings

nounPokéfan (plural Pokéfans)

plural Pokéfans

  1. slangA fan or enthusiast of Pokémon.

    This is fantastic... I've never met so many Pokéfans, and I've never seen so many Pikachu rucksacks around.

    2000 November 12, Cliff Barnes, “My Whitby Diary”, in uk.people.gothic (Usenet)
    2 more examples

    When die-hard Pokéfans outside Japan discovered that portions of the original narrative were being withheld, they flocked to online chatrooms dedicated to the series, where they complained bitterly about censorship and debated various forms of protest.

    2004, Hirofumi Katsuno, Jeffrey Meret, “Localizing the Pokémon TV Series for the American Market”, in Joseph Tobin, editor, Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 81

    Few of even the most hard-core Pokéfans will ever have tried this, so just pulling together a copy of Pokémon XD for GameCube and two GameCube-Game Boy cables can deliver a play experience that they've never had before.

    2007, Eli Neiburger, Gamers…in the Library?!: The Why, What, and How of Videogame Tournaments for All Ages, American Library Association, published 2007, →ISBN, page 71

    Synonyms: Pokémaniac

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA fan or enthusiast of Pokémon.

Also see

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*puhô
  2. Frankish*pokō
  3. Old Frenchpoche
  4. Anglo-Normanpoket
  5. Middle Englishpocket
  6. Englishpocket
  7. Japaneseポケット
  8. Proto-Indo-European*men-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*monéyeti
  10. Proto-Italic*man-eje-
  11. Proto-Italic*moneō
  12. Proto-Italic*monestrom
  13. Latinmōnstrum
  14. Old Frenchmonstre
  15. Middle Englishmonstre
  16. Englishmonster
  17. Japaneseモンスター
  18. Japaneseポケットモンスターclip.
  19. Japaneseポケモン (Pokemon)
  20. EnglishPokémonclip.
  21. EnglishPoké-
  22. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  23. Proto-Indo-European*dʰéh₁s
  24. Proto-Italic*faznom
  25. Latinfānum
  26. Latinfānāticu
  27. Frenchfanatiqueinflu.
  28. Englishfanatic
  29. Englishfancyinflu.
  30. Englishfan
  31. EnglishPokéfan

From Poké- + fan.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

Pokéfan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pok%C3%A9fan

MLA

“Pokéfan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pok%C3%A9fan. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Pokéfan,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pok%C3%A9fan.

Source: Pokéfan on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.