hospitality
UK/ˌhɒs.pɪˈtæl.ɪ.ti//ˌhɑ.spɪˈtæl.ə.ti/
hospitality noun: the act or service of welcoming, receiving, hosting, or entertaining guests; an appropriate attitude of openness, respect, and generosity toward guests.
Noun
hospitality (countable and uncountable, plural hospitalities)
- The act or service of welcoming, receiving, hosting, or entertaining guests; an appropriate attitude of openness, respect, and generosity toward guests.
- Please thank our hosts for their hospitality during the week that we stayed.
- "Quarrels!" said Charles; "do not use so disagreeable a word. I am thinking of nothing but the thanks I owe Lord Avonleigh for his hospitality"—Lord Avonleigh bent to the very edge of the table—"and the favours I am about to ask."1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XLII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 350
- Synonyms:
- guestfriendship
- Antonyms:
- inhospitality
- The business of providing catering, lodging and entertainment service; the industry which includes the operation of hotels, restaurants, and similar enterprises.
- After graduating from college, she found a job in hospitality.
- The food, drink, and entertainment given to customers by a company or organization or provided to visitors by a private host.
hospitality meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
hospitality in Hindi
- act or service of welcoming, receiving, hosting, or entertaining guests
- आतिथ्य ātithya, सत्कार satkār, मेहमाननवाज़ी mehmānnavāzī
- business of providing catering, lodging and entertainment service
- सत्कार satkār, आतिथ्य ātithya
hospitality in Tamil
- விருந்தோம்பல், உபசரிப்பு, உபசாரம்
hospitality in Marathi
- आदरातिथ्य, आदरातिथ्ये, पाहुणचार
hospitality in Urdu
- act or service of welcoming, receiving, hosting, or entertaining guests
- مہمان نوازی mehmān-navāzī
More languagesFewer languages
- hospitality in Bengali
- খাতির khatir, মেহমানী mehmani, তোয়াজ tōẇaj
- hospitality in Telugu
- అతిథిసత్కారము atithisatkāramu
- hospitality in Malayalam
- ആതിഥ്യം ātithyaṁ
- hospitality in Kannada
- ಆತಿಥ್ಯ ātithya
- hospitality in Punjabi
- ਸਤਕਾਰ satkār
- hospitality in Gujarati
- આતિથ્ય, આદરાતિથ્ય
- hospitality in Odia
- ଆତିଥେଯ଼ତା, ଆତିଥ୍ଯ଼ ପ୍ରଦାନ
- hospitality in Nepali
- आतिथ्य, अतिथि सत्कार
- hospitality in Tagalog
- mabuting pakikitungo
- hospitality in Arabic
- كَرَم karam, إِكْرَام ʔikrām, ضِيَافَة ḍiyāfa, قِرًى qiran
- hospitality in Persian
- مهماننوازی mehmân-navâzi
- hospitality in Vietnamese
- lòng mến khách
- hospitality in Myanmar
- ဧည့်ဝတ် e-ny.wat
- Kashmiri
- پٔژھِل pạċhil, پٔژھؠ لٲز pạċh' lạ̄z, میٚہمان نَوٲزی mehmān navạ̄zī
Examples of hospitality in a sentence
- In Ancient Times, as Story tells, / The Saints would often leave their Cells, / And ſtrole about, but hide their Quality, / To try good Peoples Hoſpitality.1708, [Jonathan Swift], “The Metamorphosis of Baucis and Philemon, Burlesqu’d; from the 8th Book of Ovid”, in Baucis and Philemon; a Poem....
- Mr Venus, reminded of the duties of hospitality, produced some rum.1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […]...
- It was pleasant, too, much as we enjoyed the hospitality of the Republic, to be buying stamps with the Queen's head on them, and to be posting our cards in a red pillar-box, instead of a green one.1955 June, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 393:
Synonyms of hospitality
Antonyms
Forms of hospitality
| plural | hospitalities |
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Origin of hospitality
From Middle English hospitalite, from Old French hospitalité (modern French hospitalité), from Latin hospitālitās (“hospitality”), from hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“guest", "host”). Displaced native Old English cumlīþnes (literally “guest gentleness”).
Words formed from hospitality
- corporate hospitality
- hospitality box
- hospo
- hushpitality
- Irish hospitality
- nonhospitality
- Southern hospitality
- unhospitality
Phrases with hospitality
Words that rhyme with hospitality
- modality
- plurality
- locality
- personality
- reality
- fatality
- morality
- bestiality
- potentiality
- sexuality
- duality
- formality
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- instrumentality
- irrationality
- tonality
- asexuality
- banality
- brutality
- centrality
- externality
- generality
- normality
- totality
- causality
- confidentiality
- conventionality
- cordiality
- dimensionality
- eventuality
- extraterritoriality
- fantasticality
- homosexuality
- immorality
- legality
- lethality
- mentality
- notionality
- sensuality
- surreality
- temporality
- androsexuality
- chirality
- congeniality
- dentality
- diapersexuality
- finality
- fursonality
- geniality
- grammaticality
- graysexuality
- gynesexuality
- gynosexuality
- institutionality
- joviality
- magnality
- mysticality
- omnipotentiality
- speciality
- sphericality
- topicality
Questions about hospitality
- What does hospitality mean?
- Hospitality means the act or service of welcoming, receiving, hosting, or entertaining guests; an appropriate attitude of openness, respect, and generosity toward guests.
- What is hospitality in Hindi?
- Hospitality in Hindi is आतिथ्य (ātithya), सत्कार (satkār), मेहमाननवाज़ी (mehmānnavāzī). See Hospitality meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use hospitality in a sentence?
- In Ancient Times, as Story tells, / The Saints would often leave their Cells, / And ſtrole about, but hide their Quality, / To try good Peoples Hoſpitality.
- What part of speech is hospitality?
- Hospitality is a noun.
- How do you pronounce hospitality?
- Hospitality is pronounced /ˌhɒs.pɪˈtæl.ɪ.ti/ (UK).
- What is the plural of hospitality?
- The plural of hospitality is hospitalities.
Words near hospitality in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hospitality (page history and authors); hospitality (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hospitality (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); খাতির (Bengali) (page history and authors); ആതിഥ്യം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಆತಿಥ್ಯ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਸਤਕਾਰ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); hospitality (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hospitality (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hospitality (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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