Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Synonym of xenelasy (“the practice of expelling foreigners in Doric Crete and Lacedaemonia”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, uncountable
Qualifier: Ancient Greece
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: xenelasy
Antonyms: none provided
History
Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ (xenēlăsĭ́ā, “expulsion of foreigners”); see further at xenelasy.
