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Definition of Hospitable

1. Adjective. Favorable to life and growth. "A hospitable environment"

2. Adjective. Disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and generosity. "Hospitable invitations"

3. Adjective. Having an open mind. "Open to suggestions"

Definition of Hospitable

1. a. Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality.

Definition of Hospitable

1. Adjective. cordial and generous towards guests ¹

2. Adjective. receptive and open-minded ¹

3. Adjective. favorable ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hospitable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hospitable

hoseyed hoseying hoseys hoshin kanri hosier hosieries hosiers hosiery hosing hosings

hosp hospice hospice care hospices hospitability hospitable (current term) hospitableness hospitably hospitage hospital

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Literary usage of Hospitable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Introduction to the English Reader, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and by Lindley Murray (1813)
"The hospitable negro woman. employed, by the African Association, to explore the ... He gives the following lively and interesting account of the hospitable ..."

2. Introduction to the English Reader: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and by Lindley Murray, Israel Alger (1823)
"The hospitable negro woman, 1. THE enterprising traveller, Mun'go Park, ... He gives the following lively and interesting account of the hospitable ..."

3. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa by Heinrich Barth (1890)
"Our treatment was hospitable in the extreme,—so much so that two hundred ... But besides all these dishes of native food, my hospitable host sent for my own ..."

4. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell (1826)
"... with her under the hospitable roof of her husband, who was to me a very kind friend. Her novel, entitled Memoirs of Miss Sydney Bid- ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"CHAP, hospitable republic opened her bosom to foreigners of L1V' every climate and religion. Under the Byzantine et<m~ dard, (lie Paulicians were often ..."

6. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... with wonder, grief, and awe, Great Bourbon's relics sad she saw. no Renowned for hospitable deed, 109 Truce to these thoughts I — for, as they rise, ..."

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