Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Disposed to treat guests with warmth and generosity.
- adj. Indicative of cordiality toward guests: a hospitable act.
- adj. Having an open mind; receptive: hospitable to new ideas.
- adj. Favorable to growth and development; agreeable: a hospitable environment.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Kind and cordial toward strangers or guests; freely affording shelter and food; extending a generous welcome to visitors.
- Characteristic of or affording generous or friendly entertainment; indicating or devoted to hospitality: as, hospitable manners; a hospitable table.
- Figuratively, generous in mind; free in receiving and entertaining that which is presented to the mind: as, hospitable to new ideas.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality.
- adj. Proceeding from or indicating kindness and generosity to guests and strangers.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. favorable to life and growth
- adj. having an open mind
- adj. disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and generosity
Etymologies
- Obsolete French, from Medieval Latin *hospitābilis, from Latin hospitāre, to put up as a guest, from hospes, hospit-, guest, host; see ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Is this what you call a hospitable welcome?" asked a sudden voice.”
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“And he calls a hospitable man, and one that treats often, a kidnapper, and a tyrant who for a long time would not permit him to see his own table; and he whom the king hath raised and enriched, that says he had a design upon him and robbed him of his sleep and quiet.”
“Intar is known as a hospitable planet, though not as well regarded a vacation spot as Risa.”
“The table was at first simply a board: hence we retain the term a hospitable board; a board-room, a room where a board was placed for writing on.”
“It was not till the sun was already about to sink in the west, that the games ended, and the crowds dispersed, and I once more found myself in the peaceful precincts of home; for so already do I call the hospitable dwelling of Gracchus.”
“The boy already felt as if he had known their guest of a night for years; the hearts of the young are divinely hospitable, which is one of the things that make children the SUCH of the kingdom of heaven.”
“That is, where they could find "hospitable" investment locations -- meaning, places where wages could be driven down and regulations undone that protected labor, environment or CONSUMER rights.”
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“They hired houses at exorbitant prices in Cape Town itself, or the suburbs, and lived the same kind of hospitable existence which had been theirs in Johannesburg.”
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hostile, hospitable words (many based upon the IE root (g)hosti-) and reactions to the stranger and other words about the qualities of the strange (unfamiliar).
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SAT Words That Mean 'Generous'
A list of SAT words that mean 'generous.' Based on Gruber's SAT Word Master word list. Categorizing words by meaning can help you to memorize more effectively.
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