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Xenia
Xenia
English
Alternative forms
- Ksenia
- Kseniya
- Xeniya
Proper noun
Xenia
- A female given name of mainly historical use in English.
- A village in Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Kansas.
- A city in Ohio.
Related terms
Translations
female given name
xenia
xenia
English
Noun
xenia (uncountable)
- (classical studies) The concept of hospitality to strangers.
- (botany) The effect that genes from pollen have on the endosperm.
- plural of xenium
See also
- Xenia (Greek) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Noun
xenia
References
- xenia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- xenia in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- xenia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin