Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who dislikes or fears Germany, its people, and its culture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who fears, distrusts, or dislikes Germany and the Germans.
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Examples
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Nationalists are the most Germanophobe, the most Die-hard of men, but during the last fifteen years their philosophy has entirely changed.
Time Regained 2003
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The rules, as they stand, decreed that LODY had to be shot, but, if he could have received the treatment which brave men have a right to demand all the world over, I do not believe that even the most rabid Germanophobe would in his heart have been sorry.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-05 Various 1898
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Rebecca West, a Germanophobe British writer of the interwar period, called it "monstrous".
Edward Lucas 2010
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