Xenia
[ˈzɛniə]Meaning
means "hospitality" in greek, from xenos, "foreigner, guest"
Background Story
Xenia is a Greek name meaning "hospitality", derived from ξένος (xenos), meaning "foreigner, guest". It was the name of a 5th-century saint venerated in the Eastern Church, and the English name comes from the assumed name of that saint, via Latin Xenia from Ancient Greek ξενία. It is used in Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, English, Finnish, Late Greek, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish and Russian, and is a doublet of Oksana.
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