indicating a person or thing that fears or hates: Germanophobe, xenophobe
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-phobe, suffix.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- -phobe is attached to roots and sometimes words to form nouns that refer to persons who have a fear of something named by the root or preceding word:Anglo- + phobe → Anglophobe (= fear of English-speakers or of England).
-phobe,
- a combining form used to form personal nouns corresponding to nouns ending in -phobia: Anglophobe.
- Greek -phobos, adjective, adjectival derivative of phóbos fear, panic
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'-phobe' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Anglophobe
- Francophobe
- Germanophobe
- Negrophobe
- Russophobe
- Slavophobe
- Turcophobe
- ailurophobe
- bibliophobe
- calciphobe
- chromophobe
- claustrophobe
- homophobe
- hydrophobe
- phobia
- phobic
- xenophobe