Word Meanings - HOSPITALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality. Given to hospitality. Rom. xii. 13. And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds
Additional info about word: HOSPITALITY
The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality. Given to hospitality. Rom. xii. 13. And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality. Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HOSPITALITY)
- Cheer
- Hope
- happiness
- comfort
- hospitality
- plenty
- conviviality
- Refuge
- Protection
- shelter
- harbor
- asylum
- retreat
- covert
- sanctuary
- hiding-place
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HOSPITALITY)
Related words: (words related to HOSPITALITY)
- DISMISSIVE
Giving dismission. - STIFLED
Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne. - EJECTOR
A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses. - COMFORTLESS
Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n. - DISMISSAL
Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley. - EXPOSER
One who exposes or discloses. - SHELTERLESS
Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe. - REFUGE
1. Shelter or protection from danger or distress. Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these Find place or refuge. Milton. We might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. Heb. vi. 18. 2. - RETREATFUL
Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman. - COMFORTABLY
In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2. - EJECTMENT
A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton. (more info) 1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of - CHEERINESS
The state of being cheery. - RETREATMENT
The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey. - HARBOR MASTER
An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor. - DISMISS
1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden. - EXPOSEDNESS
The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation. - DISCOURAGEMENT
1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; - CHEERISNESS
Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton. - CHEERINGLY
In a manner to cheer or encourage. - COMFORT
1. To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate. Wyclif. God's own testimony . . . doth not a little comfort and confirm the same. Hooker. 2. To assist or help; to aid. I . . . can not help the noble chevalier: God comfort him in this - DEJECTION
1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides, - UPCHEER
To cheer up. Spenser. - DEJECTORY
1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand. - DISCOMFORTABLE
1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n. - UNHARBOR
To drive from harbor or shelter.