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Definition of -phobe combining form from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

-phobe

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