Meaning

2 senses

  1. A person who has a love of foreign people and culture.

  2. A human who is attracted to extraterrestrial aliens.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. A veritable xenophile, Zax was not a xenophobe like his classmates.

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  2. "Dennis, you know I'm a xenophile." "I know, Marko. You like exotic foreign languages."

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Origin

From xeno- + -phile.

From xeno- + -phile.

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Forms

plural: xenophiles
Singularxenophile
Pluralxenophiles

regular

Antonyms

2 antonyms
xenophoberacistB2

Word family

2 related words
Relatedxenophiliaxenophilic

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
xenobiologyxenoglossiaxenomorphxenonxenophobexenophobiaxenophobic

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