hospitable

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French hospitable, formed from the root of Latin hospitare with the suffix -able. Displaced native Old English cumlīþe (literally “guest-gentle”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɒsˈpɪtəbl̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɑsˈpɪtəbl̩/, /ˈhɑspɪtəbl̩/
• Hyphenation: hos‧pit‧a‧ble

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Adjective

hospitable (comparative more hospitable, superlative most hospitable)

1. cordial and generous towards guests

   Synonym: guestfriendly

   hospitable family

   • 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, “The Golden Dustman Falls into Worse Company”, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, 3rd book (A Long Lane), page 45:

     "And you come, brother," said Mr. Wegg, in a hospitable glow, "you come like I don't know what—exactly like it—I shouldn't know you from it—shedding a halo all around you."

2. receptive and open-minded
3. favorable
4. favorable for life; livable; suitable for life.

Synonyms

• habitable
• inhabitable
• livable
• tenantable

Antonyms

• uninhabitable

Derived terms

• hospitableness
• hospitably
• unhospitable

Translations

cordial and generous towards guests

• Albanian: derëtor, bujar (sq), mikpritës (sq)
• Armenian: հյուրընկալ (hy) (hyurənkal), հյուրասեր (hy) (hyuraser)
• Azerbaijani: qonaqsevər, qonaqcıl
• Bashkir: ҡунаҡсыл (qunaqsıl)
• Belarusian: гасці́нны (hascínny)
• Bulgarian: гостоприемен (bg) (gostopriemen)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 好客 (hou³ haak³)

  Hokkien: 好客 (hòⁿ-kheh)

  Mandarin: 好客 (zh) (hàokè)

• Czech: pohostinný m
• Danish: gæstfri
• Dutch: gastvrij (nl)
• Esperanto: gastama
• Finnish: vieraanvarainen (fi)
• French: hospitalier (fr)
• Georgian: სტუმართმოყვარე (sṭumartmoq̇vare) სტუმართმოყვარული (sṭumartmoq̇varuli)
• German: gastfreundlich (de), gastfrei (de)
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌲𐍉𐌸𐍃 (gastigōþs)
• Greek: φιλόξενος (el) (filóxenos)

  Ancient Greek: φιλόξενος (philóxenos), εὔξεινος (eúxeinos)

• Hebrew: מַכְנִיס אוֹרְחִים (makhnís-'or'khím)
• Hungarian: vendégszerető (hu)
• Icelandic: gestrisinn
• Interlingua: hospital (ia)
• Irish: aíoch, aíochtach, iostasach, gartach (literary)
• Italian: ospitale (it)
• Japanese: もてなしのよい (motenashi no yoi)
• Latin: hospitālis
• Latvian: viesmīlīgs
• Māori: whakamanuhiri, marae, manaaki
• Norwegian: gjestfri
• Old English: cumlīþe, ġiestlīþe
• Polish: gościnny (pl)
• Portuguese: hospitaleiro (pt)
• Russian: гостеприи́мный (ru) (gostepriímnyj), раду́шный (ru) (radúšnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: gostoljùbiv (sh)
• Slovak: pohostinný
• Spanish: hospitalario (es), hospitable
• Swedish: gästfri (sv), gästvänlig (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: misafirperver (tr)
• Ukrainian: гости́нний (hostýnnyj)
• Vietnamese: hiếu khách, lịch thiệp (vi)
• Yiddish: מכניס־אורחים (makhnis-orkhim), גאַסטפֿרײַנדלעך (gastfrayndlekh)

receptive and open-minded

• Portuguese: hospitaleiro (pt)
• Russian: откры́тый (ru) (otkrýtyj), непредвзя́тый (ru) (nepredvzjátyj), непредубеждённый (ru) (nepredubeždjónnyj)
• Ukrainian: сприйнятливий (spryynyatlyvyy)