Meanings
plural Pokéfans
- 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 81Few 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 71Synonyms: Pokémaniac
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA fan or enthusiast of Pokémon.
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*puhô
- Frankish*pokō
- Old Frenchpoche
- Anglo-Normanpoket
- Middle Englishpocket
- Englishpocket
- Japaneseポケット
- Proto-Indo-European*men-
- Proto-Indo-European*monéyeti
- Proto-Italic*man-eje-
- Proto-Italic*moneō
- Proto-Italic*monestrom
- Latinmōnstrum
- Old Frenchmonstre
- Middle Englishmonstre
- Englishmonster
- Japaneseモンスター
- Japaneseポケットモンスターclip.
- Japaneseポケモン (Pokemon)
- EnglishPokémonclip.
- EnglishPoké-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰéh₁s
- Proto-Italic*faznom
- Latinfānum
- Latinfānāticu
- Frenchfanatiqueinflu.
- Englishfanatic
- Englishfancyinflu.
- Englishfan
- EnglishPokéfan
From Poké- + fan.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Pokéfan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pok%C3%A9fan
“Pokéfan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pok%C3%A9fan. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Pokéfan,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pok%C3%A9fan.
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