-phobe
combining form/fəʊb/
/fəʊb/
- (in nouns) a person who dislikes a particular thing or particular people
- Anglophobe
- xenophobe
Word Originfrom French, via Latin -phobus from Greek -phobos ‘fearing’, from phobos ‘fear’.Definitions on the go
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