"philhellenic" meaning in English

See philhellenic in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more philhellenic [comparative], most philhellenic [superlative]
Etymology: From philhellene + -ic. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|philhellene|ic}} philhellene + -ic Head templates: {{en-adj}} philhellenic (comparative more philhellenic, superlative most philhellenic)
  1. Loving Greece or Greek culture.
    Sense id: en-philhellenic-en-adj-hyHWYuJ~
  2. (now historical) Specifically, supportive of Greek national independence. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-philhellenic-en-adj-K0DB8Gep Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ic Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 69 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ic: 31 69

Download JSON data for philhellenic meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "philhellene",
        "3": "ic"
      },
      "expansion": "philhellene + -ic",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From philhellene + -ic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more philhellenic",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most philhellenic",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "philhellenic (comparative more philhellenic, superlative most philhellenic)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 December 2, “The Greeks”, in New York Times",
          "text": "These ancient treasures, together with historic photographs of the major excavations, aerial panoramas of splendid sites, old watercolors and lithographs, and 19th-century architectural renderings, are enough to leave a deep impression on anyone with a drop of philhellenic blood.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Loving Greece or Greek culture."
      ],
      "id": "en-philhellenic-en-adj-hyHWYuJ~",
      "links": [
        [
          "Greek",
          "Greek"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ic",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 101",
          "text": "In France, where philhellenic sentiment reached a peak at this time, the government was secretly building warships for the Egyptian fleet and even sent French officers as advisors to accompany them when they went into service in 1827.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Specifically, supportive of Greek national independence."
      ],
      "id": "en-philhellenic-en-adj-K0DB8Gep",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now historical) Specifically, supportive of Greek national independence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "philhellenic"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -ic"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "philhellene",
        "3": "ic"
      },
      "expansion": "philhellene + -ic",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From philhellene + -ic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more philhellenic",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most philhellenic",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "philhellenic (comparative more philhellenic, superlative most philhellenic)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 December 2, “The Greeks”, in New York Times",
          "text": "These ancient treasures, together with historic photographs of the major excavations, aerial panoramas of splendid sites, old watercolors and lithographs, and 19th-century architectural renderings, are enough to leave a deep impression on anyone with a drop of philhellenic blood.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Loving Greece or Greek culture."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Greek",
          "Greek"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 101",
          "text": "In France, where philhellenic sentiment reached a peak at this time, the government was secretly building warships for the Egyptian fleet and even sent French officers as advisors to accompany them when they went into service in 1827.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Specifically, supportive of Greek national independence."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now historical) Specifically, supportive of Greek national independence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "philhellenic"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.