Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person attracted to that which is foreign, especially to foreign peoples, manners, or cultures.
Wiktionary
- n. A person infatuated with foreign people and culture.
- n. A person very interested in celebrating people's differences.
Examples
“The vegetation consists of xenophile forests mixed with palm savannas.”
“You need a girl who's a xenophile, not a xenophobe.”
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
“Even though they looked almost human, the Nevisians would no doubt have plenty of fascinating differences to intrigue a xenophile like Uhura.”
“Ethan Zuckerman writes a great piece about how Paul Simon's Graceland album came to be, with some of the historical context, backstory and being a xenophile.”
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“As a confirmed xenophile, my inner adolescent wants to say, “What’s the point?””
“It was becoming plainer and plainer that Lyneea wasn’t Imprima’s biggest xenophile.”
“Well, you saw for yourself that she's no xenophile. ”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘xenophile’.
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lovers
necrophile, xenophile, troglophile, extremophile, logophile, psychrophile, cryophile, mesophile, heliophile, lithophile, hydrophile, lipophile and 5 more...
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phile-lovin'
All that is loved - from sublime to macabre - in this world and beyond...
logophile, linguaphile, bibliophile, francophile, cinephile, ailurophile, audiophile, arctophile, xenophile, homophile, pogonophile, ecdysiophile and 5 more...
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-PHILE Words
lover of the specified person or thing
acrophile, anglophile, arctophile, astrophile, audiophile, autophile, bibliophile, alcoholphile, cinephile, demophile, discophile, francophile and 22 more...
immerbeta "Xenophiles are people who are fascinated by the whole world, by things other than their ordinary experience. They’re people who want to connect with people who see the world very differently."
Ethan Zuckermann, founder of Geekcorps and Global Voices Online Sep 29, 2008
kewpid Better than a xenophobe Sep 18, 2007