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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
-phobe, suffix. 
  1. -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).

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
-phobe, 
  1. a combining form used to form personal nouns corresponding to nouns ending in -phobia: Anglophobe.
Also, -phobiac. 
  • Greek -phobos, adjective, adjectival derivative of phóbos fear, panic

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
-phobe n combining form
  1. indicating a person or thing that fears or hates: Germanophobe, xenophobe
Etymology: from Greek -phobos fearing-phobic adj combining form
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