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harboursome

harboursome adjective: given to hospitality; hospitable.

Adjective

harboursome (comparative more harboursome, superlative most harboursome)

  1. Given to hospitality; hospitable.
    • That it is a praiseworthy matter to be harboursome to strangers.1882, Walter Baxendale, The preacher's commentary on the book of Ruth
  2. Tending to harbour (feelings, etc.); harbouring; protective.
    • Minorities — as a rule — are distrustful, wounded, and harborsome of uncertainty about their tomorrows.2001, Polska Akademia Nauk, International Society for Universalism, Dialogue and universalism

Forms of harboursome

comparativemore harboursome
superlativemost harboursome
alternative formharborsome

Origin of harboursome

From harbour + -some.

Questions about harboursome

What does harboursome mean?
Harboursome means given to hospitality; hospitable.
What part of speech is harboursome?
Harboursome is an adjective.

Words near harboursome in the dictionary

  1. harbours of refuge
  2. harbourscape
  3. harbourscapes
  4. harbourside
  5. harboursides
  6. harboursome
  7. harbourward
  8. harbourwards
  9. Harbridge
  10. harbringer
  11. Harbs

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