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Saturday, August 14, 2004
  Word of the day
I subscribe to the merriam-webster word of the day.

This is today's word of the day:

The Word of the Day for Aug 14 is:
xenophobia \zen-uh-FOH-bee-uh\ noun

: fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is
strange or foreign


Example sentence:
I always thought it was odd that Gene, whose xenophobia precluded travel
beyond the state border, chose to become a travel agent.

Did you know?
If you look back to the ancient Greek terms that underlie the word
"xenophobia," you'll discover that xenophobic individuals are literally
"stranger fearing." "Xenophobia," that elegant-sounding name for an
aversion to persons unfamiliar, ultimately derives from two Greek terms:
"xenos," which can be translated as either "stranger" or "guest," and
"phobos," which means either "fear" or "flight." "Phobos" is the
ultimate source of all English "-phobia" terms, but many of those were
actually coined in English or New Latin using the combining form
"-phobia" (which traces back to "phobos"). "Xenophobia" itself came to
us by way of New Latin and first appeared in print in English in 1903.

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.



 
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