What does philhellenic mean?
Philhellenic means Loving Greece or Greek culture..
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Loving Greece or Greek culture..
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.
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.
Use philhellenic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Philhellenic means Loving Greece or Greek culture..
Common synonyms include philhellene, graecophile, graecophilic.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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