Hospitality

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hospitality \Hos`pi*tal"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Hospitalities}. [L.
     hospitalitas: cf. F. hospitalit['e].]
     The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and
     entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with
     kind and generous liberality.
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           Given to hospitality.                    --Rom. xii.
                                                    13.
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           And little recks to find the way to heaven
           By doing deeds of hospitality.           --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hospitality
       n : kindness in welcoming guests or strangers [syn: {cordial
           reception}] [ant: {inhospitality}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  100 Moby Thesaurus words for "hospitality":
     admissibility, affability, amiability, amicability, ardency,
     assembly-line housing, bigheartedness, billeting, bonhomie,
     bounteousness, bountifulness, bounty, civility, clubbability,
     clubbishness, clubbism, commodiousness, communicativeness,
     companionability, compatibility, congeniality, convenience,
     cordiality, courteousness, courtesy, coziness, cushioniness,
     domiciliation, doss, easiness, easy purse strings, familiarity,
     fondness for society, free hand, freedom, freehandedness,
     freeheartedness, freeness, friendliness, generosity, generousness,
     geniality, givingness, graciousness, great heart, greatheartedness,
     gregariousness, heartiness, homelikeness, homeliness, homeyness,
     housing, housing bill, housing development, housing problem,
     intimacy, invitingness, largeheartedness, largeness, largess,
     liberality, liberalness, living quarters, lodging, lodgment,
     lower-income housing, luxuriousness, magnanimity, munificence,
     open hand, open heart, openhandedness, openheartedness, openness,
     peace, peacefulness, quartering, receptiveness, receptivity,
     recipience, reposefulness, restfulness, roominess, slum clearance,
     snugness, sociability, sociableness, social grace, sociality,
     softness, subdivision, tract, transient lodging, unselfishness,
     urban renewal, urbanity, warmheartedness, warmness, warmth,
     welcome
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  HOSPITALITY, n.  The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain
  persons who are not in need of food and lodging.