philhellenism

1. 1.

   admiration for Greece and the Greeks and Greek customs

   Broaderadmiration

Other forms of philhellenism

plural

philhellenisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about philhellenism

What does philhellenism mean?

philhellenism means "admiration for Greece and the Greeks and Greek customs".

How many syllables are in philhellenism?

philhellenism has 4 syllables and divides as phil-hel-le-nism under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.