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Dec 23, 2020

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Words made with combining forms

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misocainea
polygyny
audiophile
deontology
silvicolous

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audiophile

PRONUNCIATION:

(AW-dee-oh-fyl)

MEANING:

noun: One who has a keen interest in high-fidelity sound reproduction.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin audio- (sound) + -phile (love, lover of). Earliest documented use: 1951.

USAGE:

“‘Ronald was an audiophile,’ Nancy replied. ‘He was constantly buying new equipment and tinkering with it to get the best sound possible.’”
Andrea Kane; The Silence That Speaks; MIRA Books; 2015.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

One can be ignorant without being bigoted, but one can't be bigoted without being ignorant. -Dale Robert Greenley, microbiologist (b. 23 Dec 1946)

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