hospitality

English

Etymology

From Middle English hospitalite, from Old French hospitalité (modern French hospitalité), from Latin hospitālitās (“hospitality”), from hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“guest", "host”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑs.pɪˈtæl.ɪ.ti/
• IPA^(key): /hɒs.pɪˈtæl.ɪ.ti/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ælɪti

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; the industry which includes the operation of hotels, restaurants, and similar enterprises.

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

Synonyms

• guestfriendship
• guestfriendliness

Derived terms

• corporate hospitality

Related terms

• host
• hospital
• hospitable

Translations

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

• Arabic: كَرَم (ar) m (karam)
• Azerbaijani: qonaqpərvərlik, qonaqpərəstlik
• Bulgarian: гостоприемство (bg) n (gostopriemstvo)
• Catalan: hospitalitat f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: pohostinnost f
• Danish: gæstfrihed c
• Dutch: gastvrijheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: gastameco, gastamo
• Finnish: vieraanvaraisuus (fi)
• French: hospitalité (fr) f
• Galician: hospitalidade (gl) f
• Georgian: სტუმართმოყვარეობა (sṭumartmoq̇vareoba)
• German: Gastfreundlichkeit (de) f, Gastfreundschaft (de) f, Gastlichkeit (de) f
• Greek: φιλοξενία (el) f (filoxenía)

  Ancient: φιλοξενία f (philoxenía)

• Hebrew: הַכְנָסַת אוֹרְחִים f (hachnasát orḥím)
• Hungarian: vendégszeretet (hu)
• Irish: fáilte f, cóir f, gart m (literary)
• Italian: ospitalità (it) f
• Japanese: 款待 (ja) (かんたい, kantai), 持て成し (もてなし, motenashi), 厚情 (こうじょう, kōjō)
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• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: hospitālitās f, hospitium n
• Latvian: viesmīlība f
• Lithuanian: svetingumas m
• Maori: taurima, manaaki, manaakitanga
• Mongolian: зочлон хүндлэх явдал (zočlon xündlex javdal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjestfrihet (no) m or f

• Old English: cumlīþnes, ġiestlīþnes
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: gościnność (pl) f
• Portuguese: hospitalidade (pt) f
• Romanian: ospitalitate (ro) f
• Russian: гостеприи́мство (ru) n (gostepriímstvo), раду́шие (ru) n (radúšije)
• Serbo-Croatian: gostoljubivost (sh) f, gostoprimstvo (sh) n, gostoljublje (sh) n
• Slovene: gostoljubje n
• Spanish: hospitalidad (es) f
• Swedish: gästfrihet c
• Telugu: అతిథిసత్కారము (te) (atithisatkāramu)
• Turkish: konukseverlik, mihmandarlık (tr), misafirperverlik (tr)
• Ukrainian: гости́нність f (hostýnnistʹ)
• Yiddish: הכנסת־אורחים f (hakhnoses-orkhim), גאַסטפֿרײַנדלעכקײַט f (gastfrayndlekhkayt)

business of providing catering, lodging and entertainment service

• Arabic: ضِيَافَة f (ḍiyāfa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: pohostinství n
• Danish: service (da) c
• Dutch: horeca (nl) m
• Finnish: hotelli- ja ravintola-ala
• French: (singular only) hôtellerie-restauration (fr) f
• Georgian: სასტუმრო ინდუსტრია (sasṭumro indusṭria), მომსახურება (momsaxureba)
• German: Gastgewerbe n
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: vendéglátás
• Irish: aíocht f, fáilteachas m
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: ホスピタリティー (hosupitaritī), 集客 (しゅうきゃく, shūkyaku)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
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• Latin: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjestfrihet (no) m or f

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: hotelaria (pt) f
• Russian: обслу́живание (ru) n (obslúživanije), гости́ничный би́знес m (gostíničnyj bíznɛs), хоспита́лити n (xospitáliti)
• Spanish: hostelería (es) f
• Swedish: gästgiveri (sv) n, service (sv) c
• Turkish: konukseverlik, mihmandarlık (tr), misafirperverlik (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Faroese: ^{(please verify)} gestablídni n, gestablíðskapur m
• French: ^{(please verify)} hospitalité (fr) f
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} ospitalità (it) f
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

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• Latin: ^{(please verify)} hospitālitās
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} гостопри́мство n (gostoprímstvo), гостољу́бивост n (gostoljúbivost), гостољу́бие n (gostoljúbie)
• Mongolian: ^{(please verify)} зочломтгой зан (zočlomtgoj zan), найрсаг зан (najrsag zan)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} gostoprimstvo (sh)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} ఆతిథ్యం (ātithyaṁ)

Further reading

• “hospitality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “hospitality”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.