hospitality

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Etymology

From French hospitalité, from Latin hospitalitas (“hospitality”), from hospitalis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“guest", "host”). Displaced native Old English giest-líðnys (“guestliness”), from giest (“guest”).

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Noun

hospitality (countable and uncountable; plural hospitalities)

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

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

2. (business) The business of providing catering, lodging and entertainment service.

Synonyms

• guestfriendship
• guestfriendliness

Related terms

• host
• hospital
• hospitable

Translations

business

• Arabic: ضيافة (ar) (Siyāfa) f
• Esperanto: gastamo (eo)
• French: hospitalité (fr) f
• German: Bewirtung (de) f

• Japanese: ホスピタリティー (ja) (hosupitaritī), 集客 (ja) (しゅうきゃく, shūkyaku)
• Russian: обслуживание (ru) (obslúživanije) n, гостиничный бизнес (ru) (gostíničnyj bíznɛs) m, хоспиталити (ru) (xospitáliti) n (indeclinable)
• Turkish: konukseverlik (tr), mihmandarlık (tr), misafirperverlik (tr)

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

• Arabic: كرم (ar) (karam) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 好客 (cmn) (hàokè), 款待 (cmn) (kuǎndài), 招待 (cmn) (zhāodài)

• Esperanto: gastameco (eo)
• French: hospitalité (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Gastfreundlichkeit (de) f, Gastfreundschaft (de) f, Gastlichkeit (de) f

• Hungarian: vendégszeretet (hu)
• Japanese: 款待 (ja) (かんたい, kantai), 持て成し (ja) (もてなし, motenashi), 厚情 (ja) (こうじょう, kōjō)
• Latin: hospitalitas (la) f
• Polish: gościnność (pl) f
• Russian: гостеприимство (ru) (gostepriímstvo) n, радушие (ru) (radúšije) n
• Spanish: hospitalidad (es) f
• Turkish: konukseverlik (tr), mihmandarlık (tr), misafirperverlik (tr)
• Ukrainian: гостинність (uk) (hostýnnist') f

act or service

• Czech: pohostinnost f, pohostinství n (business)
• Danish: gæstfrihed (da) c
• Dutch: gastvrijheid (nl)
• Faroese: gestablídni n, gestablíðskapur m
• Finnish: vieraanvaraisuus (fi)
• Italian: ospitalità (it) f
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: میوانداری

• Latin: hospitalitas

• Macedonian: гостопримство (mk) (gostoprímstvo) n, гостољубивост (mk) (gostoljúbivost) n, гостољубие (mk) (gostoljúbie) n
• Norwegian: gjestfrihet (no) m
• Portuguese: hospitalidade (pt)
• Serbian: gostoprimstvo
• Spanish: hospitalidad (es)
• Swedish: gästfrihet (sv)
• Telugu: ఆతిథ్యం (te) (aatithyam)

External links

• hospitality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• hospitality in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911