philo-Semite
English
Alternative forms
- philosemite
Noun
philo-Semite (plural philo-Semites)
- A philo-Semitic person.
- 2014 November 7, Hadley Freeman, “God save us from the philosemitism of Burchill, Amis and Mensch”, in The Guardian:
- So I have found it to be a good rule of thumb that anyone who identifies as a philosemite is to be treated with the same amused contempt as anyone who says they love “the African people”.
Further reading
- “philo-Semite”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.