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HOSPITALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Kindness in welcoming guests or strangers
Synonyms:
cordial reception; hospitality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("hospitality" is a kind of...):
welcome (a greeting or reception)
Antonym:
inhospitality (unkind and inconsiderate welcome)
Derivation:
hospitable (disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and generosity)
Context examples:
The house was large and handsome; and the Middletons lived in a style of equal hospitality and elegance.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Thomas and his wife are hospitable folk, elderly, and without children, and if the specimen I enjoyed of their hospitality be of the average kind, their lives must be pretty comfortable.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I was glad to accept her hospitality; and I submitted to be relieved of my travelling garb just as passively as I used to let her undress me when a child.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He loved to have the cloth laid, because it had been the fashion of his youth, but his conviction of suppers being very unwholesome made him rather sorry to see any thing put on it; and while his hospitality would have welcomed his visitors to every thing, his care for their health made him grieve that they would eat.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Why he had done it, what could have provoked him to such a breach of hospitality, and so suddenly turned all his partial regard for their daughter into actual ill will, was a matter which they were at least as far from divining as Catherine herself; but it did not oppress them by any means so long; and, after a due course of useless conjecture, that it was a strange business, and that he must be a very strange man, grew enough for all their indignation and wonder; though Sarah indeed still indulged in the sweets of incomprehensibility, exclaiming and conjecturing with youthful ardour.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Nobody loved plenty and hospitality more than herself; nobody more hated pitiful doings; the Parsonage, she believed, had never been wanting in comforts of any sort, had never borne a bad character in her time, but this was a way of going on that she could not understand.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The reason of our moving was that living was cheaper in the country, and that it was easier for my mother to keep up the appearance of a gentlewoman when away from the circle of those to whom she could not refuse hospitality.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I said he was right there—never under my roof, where the Lares were sacred, and the laws of hospitality paramount.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They are hospitable, with true Yorkshire hospitality: give a guest everything, and leave him free to do as he likes.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
