Other forms: xenophobes
A xenophobe is somebody who fears or hates foreigners. Denounce a xenophobe.
The Greek roots mean stranger and fear, though the word describes hatred more than fright. Nobody has ever accepted the label xenophobe about themselves.
1nounxenophobeSomebody who fears or hates foreigners.
“The campaign was written by a xenophobe and read by nobody else.”
xenophobe is a person.
Greek xenos, a stranger, plus phobos, fear; the word entered English in the early twentieth century.
Ancient Greek
ξένος — foreign, strange
English, today
xenophobe
From xeno + phobe. From Ancient Greek ξένος (“foreign, strange”), + Ancient Greek φόβος (“fear”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA