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xenial

/ˈziːnɪəl/

xenial adjective: hospitable, especially to visiting strangers or foreigners.

Adjective

xenial (comparative more xenial, superlative most xenial)

  1. (uncommon) Hospitable, especially to visiting strangers or foreigners.
    • Thus then society is not arranged in clans, but in tribes, united by the general sense of a common name, a common abode, a common history, a common religion, and a remote sense of a common tribal stock, without any sense of personal affinity in each individual case. Again, it is curious to observe...1858, W. E. Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, volume 2, Oxford University Press, pages 459–460
    • House Democrats will always put American values over autocracy, benevolence over bigotry, […] working families over the well-connected, xenial over xenophobia, “Yes we can!” over “You can’t do it,” and zealous representation over zero-sum confrontation!2023 January 7, Hakeem Jeffries, A–Z speech
  2. (uncommon) Of the relation between a host and guest; friendly.

xenial meaning in Tamil and Bengali

xenial in Tamil

விருந்தோம்பும் பண்பு சார்ந்த

xenial in Bengali

আতিথেয়তা সংক্রান্ত, মেহমানদারি

Forms of xenial

comparativemore xenial
superlativemost xenial

Origin of xenial

From Ancient Greek ξενία (xenía, “hospitality; relations of hospitality between states or between a person and a state; the status of an alien, i.e., not a citizen”), equivalent to xenia + -al.

Questions about xenial

What does xenial mean?
Xenial means hospitable, especially to visiting strangers or foreigners.
What is xenial in Tamil?
Xenial in Tamil is விருந்தோம்பும் பண்பு சார்ந்த. See Xenial meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is xenial?
Xenial is an adjective.
How do you pronounce xenial?
Xenial is pronounced /ˈziːnɪəl/.

Words near xenial in the dictionary

  1. xenematides
  2. xenharmonic
  3. xenharmonics
  4. xenharmony
  5. xenia
  6. xenial
  7. xenias
  8. xenic
  9. xenic acid
  10. xenica
  11. Xenical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: xenial (page history and authors); xenial (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); xenial (Bengali Wiktionary) (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.

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