Word.ws English Dictionary

Xenaphile

Xenaphile noun: a fan of the television series Xena: Warrior Princess.

Noun

Xenaphile (plural Xenaphiles)

  1. (slang) A fan of the television series Xena: Warrior Princess.
    • […] but devout Xenaphiles end up squinting at blurry, freeze-framed images on their TV screens in hopes of finding out which mythological entity was not injured or otherwise inconvenienced this week.1998, Greg Cox, Battle On!: An Unauthorized, Irreverent Look at Xena: Warrior Princess, page 8
    • In light of this inexplicit story line — what gay and straight Xenaphiles refer to casually as "the subtext" — the opening voice-over's weekly refrain, "In a time of ancient gods, warlords, and kings," begins to sound gendered.1998 April, Heather Findlay, “Xena-philia!”, in Girlfriends, volume 5, number 4, San Francisco: HAF Enterprises, →ISSN, page 29, column 1
    Synonyms:
    Xenite

Synonyms of Xenaphile

Forms of Xenaphile

pluralXenaphiles

Origin of Xenaphile

From Xena + -phile.

Questions about Xenaphile

What does Xenaphile mean?
Xenaphile means a fan of the television series Xena: Warrior Princess.
What part of speech is Xenaphile?
Xenaphile is a noun.
What is the plural of Xenaphile?
The plural of Xenaphile is Xenaphiles.

Words near Xenaphile in the dictionary

  1. xenagogy
  2. Xenakis
  3. Xenakises
  4. xenalipin
  5. xenan
  6. Xenaphile
  7. Xenaphiles
  8. xenarthral
  9. xenarthran
  10. xenarthrans
  11. xenarthrous

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Xenaphile (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Xenaphile.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/xenaphile. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.