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[hos-pi-tuh-buhl, ho-spit-uh-buhl]

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receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.

characterized by or betokening warmth and generosity toward guests or strangers: a hospitable smile.

favorably receptive or open (usually followed by to): to be hospitable to new ideas; a climate hospitable to the raising of corn.

Origin:
1560–70; < Latin hospitā(re) to receive as guest (compare Latin hospitārī to be a guest; see hospitium) + -ble

Related forms

hos·pi·ta·ble·ness, noun

hos·pi·ta·bly, adverb

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On campuses elsewhere, officials have been more hospitable.

Sweaty socks and warm, damp sports shoes provide equally hospitable environments.

Others lie on the mountain's lower flanks, where conditions may be more hospitable for life.

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On campuses elsewhere, officials have been more hospitable.

Sweaty socks and warm, damp sports shoes provide equally hospitable environments.

Others lie on the mountain's lower flanks, where conditions may be more hospitable for life.

There, these pioneers could find a hospitable planet to settle.

Second, you may be able to build one that is even more hospitable to intelligence than this one.

Growing edibles inevitably means growing snails, especially because our garden is organic and hospitable to wildlife.

Not that there are many hospitable deserts out there, but the point is that lots of things are trying to kill you.

It has had its teachers, and has been hospitable enough to touring ballet troupes.

Regulation is mainly deft but not lax, and the taxman takes a hospitable view of foreigners' personal earnings.

Such conditions may have been more hospitable to life.

We eagerly await a scientific paper on whether such sunlight would be particularly hospitable to vampires.

Some places will become more hospitable to people and agriculture.

The mild climate represented in this section is hospitable to a diverse number of plants.

To begin with, cyberspace is not that hospitable to monetary transactions.

Antonio was a sweet, kind and extremely hospitable man who will be deeply missed.

Albania itself has so far been much more hospitable.

Hosting an astonishing array of living things, our hospitable planet is becoming less so for many species.

If worse comes to worse, we'll see what we've always seen, a migration of humans to more hospitable environments.

And the arid portions of the country will not become any more hospitable than they are now.

It shows what's possible when you have a hospitable climate and a creative, dedicated band of home growers.

It would also seem likely to produce a less hospitable environment.

The restaurant is hoping to hire people who do not have to pretend to be hospitable.

Pakistan enjoys a famously hospitable and relaxed culture.

In every country people could not have been more hospitable or generous.

But as the area grows more welcoming to terns, it becomes that much less hospitable to salmon.

Mars was a much more hospitable planet than it is today.

There are no villages-there's nothing hospitable about the region.

The spores will find a hospitable environment to start developing in the rain soaked forest.

Get him out and active, and you should have a more hospitable dog on your hands.

From the minute you met someone, they were genuinely warm and hospitable.

There are three major journals in my field hospitable to my approach.

Have students research the other planets in the solar system to see if any of them might be hospitable for human inhabitation.

There are other recent examples of tropical pathogens exploiting newly hospitable ecosystems.

In addition to migrating at different times to newly hospitable locales, they may also.

They act hospitable because it is part of who they want to.

Serra himself rejected proposals to move the work to a more hospitable site.

Beyond this is the puzzle of why the universe is hospitable to living creatures.

They are crowding a landscape that has become ever more hospitable to gambling.

The woman is quietly hospitable and allows him to remain overnight.

Bogota residents often describe themselves as hospitable at home, but anarchic on the street.

It proved less hospitable to countless whales that were hunted from the site-in some cases to the brink of extinction.

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hospitable (ˈhɒspɪtəb^əl, hɒˈspɪt-)

—*adj*
1.	welcoming to guests or strangers
2.	fond of entertaining
3.	receptive: hospitable to new ideas

[C16: from Medieval Latin hospitāre to receive as a guest, from Latin hospes guest, host¹]

'hospitableness

—n

'hospitably

—*adv*

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hospitable

1570, from M.Fr. hospitable, from L. hospitari "be a guest," from hospes (gen. hospitis) "guest" (see host (1)).

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