Word Finder - hospitality

definition

The act or service of welcoming, receiving, hosting, or entertaining guests.

example

Please thank our hosts for their hospitality during the week that we stayed.

synonyms

• guestfriendliness
• guestfriendship

definition

The business of providing catering, lodging and entertainment service; the industry which includes the operation of hotels, restaurants, and similar enterprises.

example

After graduating from college, she found a job in hospitality.

The buildings devoted to hospitality were divided into three groups.

Amongst the Romans, private hospitality, which had existed from the earliest times, was more accurately and legally defined than amongst the Greeks.

The sting of his cool hospitality was quickly replaced with awe as she turned back to the room.

He was treated with honour and hospitality, and returned by way of Samarkand and Tabriz, to his own territory.

The advantages thus obtained by the guest were, the right of hospitality when travelling and, above all, the protection of his host (representing him as his patron) in a court of law.

From this time he was dependent on the hospitality of his numerous friends.

Violation of the duties of hospitality was likely to provoke the wrath of the gods; but it does not appear that anything beyond this religious sanction existed to guard the rights of a traveller.

His hospitality was great, almost to a fault, and he seldom came home without bringing a guest.

His generosity and hospitality were proved in his gifts to Richard and his treatment of captives.

Yet this eminent, this superior personage was an habitual drunkard, an uncouth savage who intruded upon the hospitality of wealthy foreigners, and was not ashamed to seize upon any dish he took a fancy to, and send it home to his wife.

The emphasis is on service, quality and hospitality.

Don't insult them by refusing their hospitality.

Foreigners were frequently granted the right of public hospitality by the senate down to the end of the republic. The public hospes had a right to entertainment at the public expense, admission to sacrifices and games, the right of buying and selling on his own account, and of bringing an action at law without the intervention of a Roman patron.

Is hospitality due to assassins?.

This cemetery derives its name from Priscilla, mother of Pudens, who is said to have given hospitality to St'Peter the Apostle.

Immediately on his arrival, the stranger was clothed and entertained, and no inquiry was made as to his name or antecedents until the duties of hospitality had been fulfilled.

He was merely a friendly neighbor practicing southern hospitality.

From the mines of Thrace, and perhaps from the harbour dues and from the mines of Laurium, he derived a large revenue; under his encouragement, Miltiades had planted an Athenian colony on the shores of the Thracian Chersonese; he had even made friends with Thessaly and Macedonia, as is evidenced by the hospitality extended by them to Hippias on his final expulsion.

Montpelier, like Jefferson's Monticello and Monroe's Oak-Hill, was an expensive bit of "gentleman farming," which with his generous Virginia hospitality nearly ruined its owner financially.

The young writers of 1870 to 1880 had not long to wait, however, for recognition both at home and in Paris, where many of them found hospitality in the pages of the Mercure de France from 1890 onwards.

But first, I feel the urge to partake of Canadian hospitality.

So stringent are the obligations of hospitality that a household is bound to exact reparation for any injury done to a guest as though he were a member of the family.

Ever active, he employed himself in the narrower sphere of repairing the castle and improving its domains and gardens, in shipbuilding on the Clyde, and in the exercise of the virtues of hospitality and charity.

She received the prophet with hospitality, sharing with him her all but exhausted store, in faith of his promise in the name of the God of Israel that the supply would not fail so long as the drought lasted.

On the 30th he was restored to the hospitality of Niccolini, his warm partisan.

You must not accept repeated hospitality from the same source.

You'll be on your way to enjoying a career at sea in the exciting hospitality industry.

The question of raising him to the bench was seriously considered by Lord Cairns, who, however, seems to have thought that the ungrudging hospitality and goodwill with which Benjamin had been received by the English legal profession had gone far enough.

In the terrible "famine of St Luke" in 1835, Selassie still further won the hearts of his subjects by his wise measures and personal generosity; and by extending his hospitality to Europeans, he brought his country within the closer ken of civilized European powers.

For the reception of his parishioners he had three tables well covered - one for gentlemen, the second for husbandmen, the third for day-labourers; and this piece of hospitality he never omitted, even when losses or scarcity made its continuance difficult.

He was distinguished for his hospitality to literary and scientific men, and for his interest in the welfare and independence of his native country.

Their best points were their hospitality and, in Lower Moldavia, their valour.

We are also told that he administered rigid and impartial justice and dispensed royal hospitality.

Ancient olive trees, fabulous warm hospitality - Italy has it all!

Traditional hospitality ensured that I was invited into the felt tents of ' gers ' of Mongolian nomads.

He was noted for his hospitality, and was somewhat ostentatious in his habits, sometimes visiting Canterbury and other towns attended by a retinue of 800 horsemen.

The character of the people is marked by simplicity of manners, kindness and hospitality.

Yet in spite of this savagery the Fijians have always been remarkable for their hospitality, open-handedness and courtesy.

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We bring all the benefits of sheer professionalism that we have gained over the years working within the demanding corporate hospitality industry.

Although sparsely populated, Harris is well renowned for its style and warmth of hospitality.

The true Arab despises agriculture; but the pursuit of commerce, the organization and conduct of trading caravans, cannot be carried on without widespread connexions of blood and hospitality between the merchant and the leading sheiks on the route.

After a stay in Hail, where he had every opportunity of observing the character of the country and its inhabitants, and the hospitality and patriarchal, if sometimes stern, justice of its chief, he travelled on to Medina and Mecca, and returned thence to Cairo to report to his patron.

The reference is to the earthenware token which two friends broke in order that they might commend a stranger for hospitality by sending with him the broken half.

From the outset it was a cardinal principle with Greeley to hear all sides, and to extend a special hospitality to new ideas.

Outside of these, to the west and east, are the "halls and chambers devoted to the exercise of hospitality, with which every monastery was provided, for the purpose 'of receiving as guests persons who visited it, whether clergy or laity, travellers, pilgrims or paupers."

So also it was needful that, like a Greek city, it should have a public hearth or prytaneum, where fire should always burn on the altar of the Olympian Hestia, and where the controllers of Olympia should exercise public hospitality.

The newly married couple took a lease of Lansdowne House, which for several years was a salon for the Liberal party and a centre of hospitality for a much wider circle.

That Dalrymple arranged for actual extermination of the males of the clan is certain, but there is no proof that he knew of the modus operandi, the betrayal of hospitality, " murder under trust."

Petrarch remained an incurable rhetori cian; and, while he stigmatized the despots in his ode to Italy and in his epistles to the emperor he accepted their hospitality.