Anyone who has a love or fondness for Lacedaemon, or Sparta, in Laconia, and its culture and laws; Laconophiles admire the Spartans, praise their valor in war, their military successes, their aristocratic and virtuous ways, the stable order of their politcal life, and their constitution, with its tripartite mixed government.

The term, "tripartite" refers to a form of government which integrated aspects of democracy, oligarchy, and monarchy.