guest-friendship
guest-friendship noun: friendship shown to guests; hospitality.
Noun
guest-friendship (usually uncountable, plural guest-friendships)
- Friendship shown to guests; hospitality.
- The great significance of guest friendship and gift-exchange in the Celto-Germanic world bears witness to a deeply-founded desire to enter into positive relations with other groups.1996, Nico Roymans, From the Sword to the Plough: Three Studies on the Earliest Romanisation of Northern Gaul, Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, page 13
- Germanic cultural traditions of guest-friendship and hospitality, immortalised in the heroic literature of Beowulf (610ff) (Cat. 2003, 116, 397; von Uslar, 1934: Abb 2, 7-8).2009, Ángel Morillo Cerdán, Norbert Hanel, Esperanza Martín, International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 20, Ediciones Polifemo, →ISBN, page 819
Forms of guest-friendship
| plural | guest-friendships |
|---|---|
| alternative form | guestfriendship |
| alternative form | guest friendship |
Origin of guest-friendship
From guest + friendship. Compare Dutch gastvriendschap, German Gastfreundschaft.
Questions about guest-friendship
- What does guest-friendship mean?
- Guest-friendship means friendship shown to guests; hospitality.
- What part of speech is guest-friendship?
- Guest-friendship is a noun.
- What is the plural of guest-friendship?
- The plural of guest-friendship is guest-friendships.
Words near guest-friendship in the dictionary
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