The Collaborative International Dictionary
Xenium \Xe"ni*um\, n.; pl. Xenia. [L., from Gr. xe`nion gift to a guest, fr. xe`nos guest.] (Class. Antiq.) A present given to a guest or stranger, or to a foreign ambassador.
Wiktionary
n. A gift or offering.
Usage examples of "xenium".
Frank could drive the test program to completion, if Xenia could guide the corporation through the maze of legislation that still impeded them.
Standing at the base of the crater called Amundsen, Xenia could actually see the Sun, a sliver of light poking through a gap in the enclosing rim mountains, casting long, stark shadows over the colorless, broken ground.
When Xenia had been born such a spectacle, a supernova a mere nine thousand light-years away, would have been a source of great scientific and public interest.
But Xenia took little comfort, oppressed as she was by the evidence of the fall of mankind.
But Xenia could make out a dim cloud of green, swathing the Earth: It was an orbiting forest, Trees that had survived the collision, still drawing their sustenance from the curdled air with superconductor roots.
It seemed essential to Xenia they did not lose their concentration as a people, their memory.
In the distance she could hear Xenia scolding Maurice as another normal day began at No.
Millicent refrained from complaining about the nip Xenia had given Maurice when he got too close to the stand from which Xenia ruled the salon.
Well, it had been an unfortunate occasion, what with Xenia spouting off and Lady Jersey quizzing them both in Hyde Park.
Smedley lurking about, not to mention Xenia in the corner spouting off that horrible nonsense of the pink bottom and the pea-green bow.
She gave him a tentative smile and hoped Xenia could be silent for once.
The priest, dressed in loose, comfortable-looking therm-aware shirt and slacks, could have held any one of a number of white-collar professions: an accountant, maybe, or a space scientist of the kind Frank Paulis had recruited in droves, or even a lawyer like Xenia herself.
And she looked beyond Xenia, into the rocket compound, with questing, curious eyes.
And so they began a slow drive around the fences, as Dorothy peered out, and Xenia struggled to contain her impatience.
Sister Xenia herself carried a cup and pitcher that she set before Leo.