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xenophobia definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a fear of foreigners or strangers

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: New Latin Date: 1903 fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a deep dislike of foreigners. Derivatives: xenophobic adj.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Xenophobia is strong and unreasonable dislike or fear of people from other countries. (FORMAL)

Moby Thesaurus

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