Noun: turriphile
| Singular | turriphile |
| Plural | turriphiles |
Sample Sentences
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But while these modern turriphiles took to their towers shortly after World War I as bastions of security in what they regarded as the wasteland of Western civilization and heralded their towers extensively in their works, Trump has never revealed his motives. [p. 2016, Theodore Ziolkowski, “Donald Trump: From Turrimania to Muromania”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 1:]
Nouns inflected like turriphile
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Coined by Theodore Ziolkowski in 1998. Equivalent to Latin turris (“tower”) + -philia, from Ancient Greek φιλία (philía). See: Latin Nouns '
turris', Ancient Greek Nouns '
φιλία'.