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# hospitality

«hospitality» in Mova's school dictionary: **Being friendly, welcoming and generous to guests or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (hospitality; uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Being friendly, welcoming and generous to guests or strangers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hospitality/#m1)

2) Food, drink and entertainment given to guests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hospitality/#m2)

3) The business of hotels, restaurants and cafés, called the hospitality industry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hospitality/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In ethics and church life, hospitality — welcoming strangers — is an important value; the Bible tells of Abraham welcoming three visitors. In adult life «hospitality» is a type of job. Phrases: show hospitality, warm hospitality, thank you for your hospitality, hospitality industry.

### examples

- Thank you for your kind hospitality; we loved staying with you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hospitality/#x1)
- The village was famous for its hospitality to travellers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hospitality/#x2)
- The Bible teaches Christians to show hospitality to strangers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hospitality/#x3)
- My cousin works in hospitality at a big hotel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hospitality/#x4)
- The family's hospitality made us feel at home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hospitality/#x5)
- The team enjoyed the hospitality of the other school after the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hospitality/#x6)
- He had grown fat upon the badger's hospitality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hospitality/#x7)

### note

Uncountable. Adjective: hospitable (welcoming); opposite: inhospitable (unwelcoming, also of harsh places like deserts). Related to «hospital» and «host» in origin.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hospitality» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hospitality/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.