HOSPITALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hospitality mean? 

• HOSPITALITY (noun)
  The noun HOSPITALITY has 1 sense:

1. kindness in welcoming guests or strangers

  Familiarity information: HOSPITALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOSPITALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Kindness in welcoming guests or strangers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

cordial reception; hospitality

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 

I'll partake of no one's hospitality, until I have—a—moved Mount Vesuvius—to eruption—on—a—the abandoned rascal—HEEP!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I should wish to place upon record here our gratitude to all our friends upon the Amazon for the very great kindness and hospitality which was shown to us upon our return journey.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You see the sacredness of our hospitality,” I said bitterly to Maud Brewster.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

On the last occasion he had remarked that if my friend would only come with me he would be glad to extend his hospitality to him also.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Is this your care and your hospitality?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You were thrown, by some surprising accident, on this shore, renowned for its hospitality, seized immediately, and charged with murder.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It did not appear to him that Sir Walter could materially alter his style of living in a house which had such a character of hospitality and ancient dignity to support.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Aunt March received them with her usual hospitality.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It has often led him to be liberal and generous, to give his money freely, to display hospitality, to assist his tenants, and relieve the poor.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)