Romanophile

plural Romanophiles

1. One who has a love of Ancient Rome.

   Coerced British workers had to have built the grand buildings and roads that so impressed later Romanophiles.

   2010, Timothy Parsons, The Rule of Empires, page 50

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   A Romanophile, the Greek historian Polybius intended his History to explain Rome's dominance over the civilized world.

   2012, Jon E. Lewis, Rome: The Autobiography

   Antonyms: Romanophobe

plural Romanophiles

1. One who has a love of Romania.

   Its first prelate was the Ukrainian-born Bukovinian Romanophile and avid promoter of all things Romanian, Metropolitan Nectari Kotlearciuc […]

   2010, Paul R. Magocsi, A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples, page 644

   Antonyms: Romanophobe

plural Romanophiles

1. One who has a love of the Roma people.

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   George Borrow (1803-1881) has stood as the acknowledged source of inspiration for countless Romanophiles (as well as Romanophobes) ever since his literary heyday in the 19th century; in fact Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald saw himself as quite "unfashionable" (1944:x) because he was one of the few who didn't make his "first acquaintance with [Gypsies] in the pages of George Borrow".

   1997, Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker, Khristo Kyuchukov, The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, page 199

   Antonyms: Romanophobe