hospitality

Definition of hospitality in English English dictionary: The business of providing catering, lodging and entertainment service; The act or service of welcoming, receiving, hosting, or entertaining guests
Please thank our hosts for their hospitality during the week that we stayed.; the practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness; {n} entertainment of strangers; The ability to provide an open house and a warm welcome to those in need of food and lodging Acts 16: 14-15, Romans 12: 9-13, Romans 16: 23, Hebrews 13: 1-2, I Peter 4: 9; Making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were; Hospitality is friendly, welcoming behaviour towards guests or people you have just met. Every visitor to Georgia is overwhelmed by the kindness, charm and hospitality of the people; {i} warm reception of guests and strangers into one's home welcome; act of being hospitable; Organize or volunteer for setting up and cleaning up for Parent's Club-sponsored events Some evenings necessary; The ability to meet the basic social needs of and to extend care to persons (strangers) beyond one's immediate circle of friends; Consuming Passions (ABC) Check Tasting Australia website The Edible Monument: Art of Food for Festivals (Getty Research Institute) See also Slow Food International; All food, beverage and snacks to be provided to the Artists before and after the show; A common social and cultural topic (a subtexture of social and cultural texture), hospitality is the welcoming of strangers as guests into one's home to dine or lodge Hospitality plays a role in the honor culture of Mediterranean society, because a host gains honor by the quality of his/her guests and guests are expected to honor their hosts Any slight one either party's part results in shame and dishonor on the offending party; kindness in welcoming guests or strangers; The gift of Hospitality is the special ability God gives to certain members of the body of Christ to provide a welcoming atmosphere for people who come to their home or church (see 1 Peter 4: 9, Romans 12: 9-13, Romans 16: 23, Acts 16: 14-15, Heb 13: 1-2); Hospitality is the food, drink, and other privileges which some companies provide for their visitors or clients at major sporting or other public events. corporate hospitality tents; The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality; hospitage
Southern hospitality: The reputation for people in the U.S. South to be particularly warm and welcoming to visitors
hospitality.: guestfriendliness
corporate hospitality: Corporate hospitality is the entertainment that a company offers to its most valued clients, for example by inviting them to sporting events and providing them with food and drink. corporate hospitality at football grounds. executives in a corporate hospitality tent
hospitalities: plural of hospitality