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French
Etymology
From slave + -phile.
Pronunciation
Adjective
slavophile (plural slavophiles)
- liking Slavic culture
Il est plus slavophile qu’anglophile.- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- related to Slavophilia
- Le principal mouvement slavophile est russe (des mouvements similaires ont existé dans d'autres pays slaves, comme la Pologne) et fondé sur le concept de « génie de la Russie ». (Wikipédia, Slavophilisme)
Antonyms
Noun
slavophile m (plural slavophiles)
- Slavophile, member of an intellectual movement in 19th-century Russia
- Antonym: occidentaliste
- Les slavophiles sont les meilleurs soutiens et les pires démolisseurs du régime impérial. Lorsqu'il faut lutter contre l'intelligentsia, ils encouragent le tsar à allonger les tentacules de la police. Lorsqu'on parle d'émancipation des paysans, ils s'opposent de toute leur puissance à la moindre concession. (Jean Renald, « L'Anarchie en Russie », in « Histoire de l'Anarchie, T.2 », 1974)
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