Associations to the word «Philhellenism»

Wiktionary

PHILHELLENISM, noun. A 19th-century intellectual movement which supported the independence of Greece from the Ottoman Empire.
PHILHELLENISM, noun. Love of Greece.

Dictionary definition

PHILHELLENISM, noun. Admiration for Greece and the Greeks and Greek customs.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope