Xenia
Xenia may mean:
Generosity or hospitality
- Xenia (Greek), the ancient Greek concept of hospitality, translated as "guest-friendship"; in Latin it means "gifts"
- Xenia epigram, an epigram accompanying a present or gift
- Xenia motif, the representation of a host's generosity to his guests
Places
- 625 Xenia, an asteroid discovered in 1907
- Atlanta, Illinois (formerly known as "Xenia"), a city in Logan County
- Xenia, Illinois, a village in Clay County
- Xenia, Kansas, an unincorporated community
- Xenia, Missouri, a former town
- Xenia, Ohio, a city in Greene County
- Xenia Township, Greene County, Ohio, near Xenia, Ohio
People
- Xenia (name), a romanization of the Cyrillic "Ксения", a feminine given name, more commonly anglicized as "Kseniya" or "Ksenia"
- Xenia (singer), a singer in the finals of season 1 of the TV series The Voice
- Xenia (animator), American animator, real name Ed DeMattia
- Xenia, a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup X (mtDNA)
- Saint Xenia (disambiguation), several people
- Ksenia Godunova (1582–1622), Russian tsarevna
- Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875–1960), sister of Tsar Nicholas II
- Xenia Desni, Ukrainian actress of the silent era
- Xenia Onatopp, a fictional villain from James Bond's GoldenEye
- Xenia Seeberg, German actress best known for appearing in the science fiction television series Lexx
- Xenia Shestova, Russian nun and mother of Mikhail I of Russia
- Xenia Tchoumitcheva, Swiss/Russian fashion model
- Ksenija Pajčin (1977–2010), Serbian singer, dancer and model was sometimes referred to as Xenia or Xenija
Nature
- Xenia (genus), a genus of coral
- Xenia (plants), pollen effects on seeds and fruits
Art, entertainment, and media
Film
- Xenia (film), a 2014 Greek film
Music
- Xenia (band), a former Yugoslav band
Literature
- Xenia (poetry), a 1966 anthology of poems by the Italian writer Eugenio Montale
- Xenia Orchidacea, a book in three volumes published 1858–1900, by Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach & Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin
Transportation
- Xenia (automobile), an American car
- Daihatsu Xenia, also known as Toyota Avanza, a car
- USS Xenia (AKA-51), an Artemis-class attack transport formerly of the United States Navy, renamed Presidente Errazuriz after transfer to Chile after 1946
Computing and technology
- Xenia (emulator), a PC emulator of the Xbox 360 console
Hotels and resorts
- Xenia (Hotel), a now defunct chain of state-owned hotels in Greece
- Xenia Springs also known as Tawawa House or Tawawa Springs, a privately owned resort where white slave owners would bring the black slaves they kept as mistresses; the land is now owned by Wilberforce University
See also
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