Definitions
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- noun A name for a people or a language or a city etc. which is not used by the natives themselves.
German , for example, is a xenonym for people who call themselvesdeutsch ,Germans a xenonym forDeutsche ,Cologne a xenonym forKöln ,Austria forÖsterreich etc.
Etymologies
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xeno- "foreign" + -onym "name"
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