Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who loves cats.
Wiktionary
- n. A person with ailurophilia; a cat-lover; compare ailurophobe.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek αἴλουρος (ailouros, "cat") + English -phile (from Ancient Greek φίλος (philos, "dear”, “beloved")). (Wiktionary)
- Greek ailouros, cat + -phile. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“They don't really have a choice Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become an alien, an aileron and an ailurophile.”
“It would be someone who knew he was an ailurophile ... someone who knew where he lived ... someone who knew he was away from home on that particular morning.”
“n. & a. (stimulant) causing wakefulness. ailurophile”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ailurophile’.
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Logophily: Words with "phil"
List of words containing the string phil-, -phil-, -phil, or -phile, such as philopatry, bibliophile, and neutrophil.
Greek: φιλία/φίλος, φιλια-/φιλο - love, loving, love of, fondness for, at...philopatry, bibliophile, neutrophil, thalassophily, stegophilist, philoxeny, psychrophile, logophily, photophilia, photophilous, heliophilous, philornithic and 148 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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phile-lovin'
All that is loved - from sublime to macabre - in this world and beyond...
logophile, linguaphile, bibliophile, francophile, cinephile, ailurophile, audiophile, arctophile, xenophile, homophile, pogonophile, ecdysiophile and 5 more...
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-PHILE Words
lover of the specified person or thing
acrophile, anglophile, arctophile, astrophile, audiophile, autophile, bibliophile, alcoholphile, cinephile, demophile, discophile, francophile and 22 more...
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Potpourri
eponymous, aa, pulchritude, gizmo, macabre, sui generis, solecism, solipsism, eldritch, samizdat, queue, obsequious and 469 more...
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The Medley of Me
A jumble of words, sometimes contradictory, that add up to me. I'll probably be adding to this list for some time, because I'm a very complex individual. ;P
male, long-haired, big-eyed, writer, artist, guitarist, songsmith, talespinner, pilot, wannabe barnstormer, gypsy, cuddlesome and 209 more...
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juv3nal's Words
ligature, hermeneutic, caduceus, prelapsarian, apophenia, pataphor, lipogram, epinephrine, ludic, samizdat, oulipo, oulipopo and 194 more...
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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SCRUBJAYS IDIOM
EXTRAPOLATE, altruistic, misanthropic, predicate, pejoritive, disparaging, bucolic, sylvan, veracity, autodidact, jejune, erudite and 110 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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Learned words
Words which are highly likely to be found in the work of learned writers.
ailurophile, labyrinthine, lagniappe, colleague, anechoic, reglets, fluctuations, scalar, implicit, constitute, mortification, ambassadors and 629 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Words + Phrases I Like
apotheosis, antipode, penumbra, umbra, bellatrix, zephyr, oblivion, nefarious, wicked, requiem, catalyst, ire and 89 more...
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Evin290's Words
puerile, fastidious, blatherskite, folderol, femtosecond, redox, incarnadine, cerulean, genuflection, muslin, multitudinous, miasma and 517 more...
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amcd56's Words
undisillusioned, truthiness, wikiality, nonunparallel, bafflegab, otiose, snarky, gynotikolobomasso..., battology, unasinous, zaftig, mumbo-jumbo and 122 more...
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kaichi Definition: a lover of cats =^,^= Jan 9, 2007