Germanophobia

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The hatred or fear of Germany, its people and culture. uncountable

    "If we deal with state Germanophobia, the first observation concerns the uniqueness of war in the sense that it means that the government became overtly rather than covertly xenophobic in order to create a level of support on the home front necessary for victory on the battlefield, especially before conscription was introduced at the beginning of 1916. In Britain during the First World War, the government established various agencies for the propagation of Germanophobia."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of Germanophobia. alt-of, alternative, uncountable

    "We sincerely regret that the statesmen in Britain and France are suffering from virulent germanophobia."

  3. 3
    The hatred or fear of the presence of the German language and its native speakers. uncountable

Synonyms

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teutonophobiateutophobiaxenophobia

Example

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"If we deal with state Germanophobia, the first observation concerns the uniqueness of war in the sense that it means that the government became overtly rather than covertly xenophobic in order to create a level of support on the home front necessary for victory on the battlefield, especially before conscription was introduced at the beginning of 1916. In Britain during the First World War, the government established various agencies for the propagation of Germanophobia."

Etymology

From Germano- + -phobia.

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