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 term.
Etymologies
- Greek ailouros, cat + -phile.
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.”
The Cat Who Sang For The Birds
“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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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...
kaichi Definition: a lover of cats =^,^= Jan 9, 2007