Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to hospitality, or to the rights, privileges, standing, or treatment of a guest, or to the relations between a guest and his host; specifically, noting such relations, etc., in Greek antiquity.
Wiktionary
- adj. Hospitable, especially to visiting strangers or foreigners.
- adj. Of the relation between a host and guest; friendly.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ξενία (ksenia, "guest-friend, stranger"). (Wiktionary)
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Logolepsy
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Adjectival Arcana
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Just 'cause I like 'em, X
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perhapsolutely's Words
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Stranger's Words XENO-tropes
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).
guest, gastarbeiter, host, hostile, hospice, hospitable, hospital, hospitality, hostage, hostel, hostler, xenia and 14 more...
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