arctophile

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”) + English -phile.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːktəfaɪl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹktəˌfaɪl/
• Hyphenation: arc‧to‧phile

arctophile (plural arctophiles)

2. One who has a fondness for teddy bears, usually a collector of them. [from 1960s]
   • 1969 October 15, Gillian Tindall, “The bear facts”, in The Guardian (Woman’s Guardian section), London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2, “Love letters”:

     On the other hand I am appalled by the ways these "arctophiles" seem to feel for their childhood friends not an informed, reminiscent emotion, but exactly what they felt at 6 with no development at all.

• arctophilia
• arctophily

• ursophile

• teddy bear on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “arctophile, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

• carpholite, cartophile

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”) + -phile.

• IPA^(key): /aʁk.tɔ.fil/

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arctophile m or f by sense (plural arctophiles)

2. arctophile (one who has a fondness for teddy bears)

• carpolithe, cartophile, chapitoler, chipolater, lithocarpe