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Xenophobe vs Xenophone - What's the difference?

xenophobe | xenophone |

As nouns the difference between xenophobe and xenophone

is that xenophobe is xenophobe while xenophone is (phonetics) a sound in speech that is not native to the language being spoken; a sound from a foreign language.

As an adjective xenophobe

is xenophobic.

xenophobe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who fears that which is unknown; one who fears people who are different from oneself, especially in the case of foreign people.

    • Synonyms

    * xenophobian (rare), xenophobiac (rare)

    Antonyms

    *xenophile

    Related terms

    * xenophobia * xenophobic

    See also

    *bigot *racist

    xenophone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (phonetics) A sound in speech that is not native to the language being spoken; a sound from a foreign language

    • References

    The term was introduced in: Robert Eklund & Anders Lindström. 1998. How To Handle “Foreign” Sounds in Swedish Text-to-Speech Conversion: Approaching the ‘Xenophone’ Problem. Proceedings of The International Conference on Spoken Language Processing , 30 November–5 December 1998, Sydney, Australia. Paper 514, vol. 7, pp. 2831–2834. [http://www.ida.liu.se/~g-robek/icslp98xeno.pdf] Also see: [http://xenophones.info] http://xenophones.info