Historical vs Xenia - What's the difference?
historical | xenia |
A historical romance.
* 1999 , Anne K. Kaler, Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, Romantic Conventions , page 63:
(classical studies) The concept of hospitality to strangers.
(botany) The effect that genes from pollen have on the endosperm.
As an adjective historical
is pertaining to the history, to what happened in the past.As a noun historical
is a historical romance.As a proper noun xenia is
of mainly historical use in english.historical
English
Usage notes
* * See the usage notes about (m) for more.Synonyms
* historicDerived terms
* ahistorical * art-historicalNoun
(en noun)- However, as regular romance readers know, the romance novels that appear on the best-seller lists are not Harlequins at all, but rather historicals and contemporaries, which vary widely from the Harlequin pattern in style, plot, and character.