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- English Word Hospitableness Definition The quality of being hospitable; hospitality.
- English Word Hospitably Definition In a hospitable manner.
- English Word Hospitage Definition Hospitality.
- English Word Hospital Definition A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn.
- English Word Hospital Definition A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for.
- English Word Hospital Definition Hospitable.
- English Word Hospitaler Definition One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.
- English Word Hospitaler Definition One of an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims, A. D. 1042. They were called Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and after the removal of the order to Malta, Knights of Malta.
- English Word Hospitalism Definition A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.
- English Word Hospitalities Definition of Hospitality
- English Word Hospitality Definition The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality.
- English Word Hospitalize Definition To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
- English Word Hospitate Definition To receive hospitality; to be a guest.
- English Word Hospitate Definition To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
- English Word Hospitium Definition An inn; a lodging; a hospice.
- English Word Hospitium Definition An inn of court.
- English Word Hospodar Definition A title borne by the princes or governors of Moldavia and Wallachia before those countries were united as Roumania.
- English Word Host Definition The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.
- English Word Host Definition An army; a number of men gathered for war.
- English Word Host Definition Any great number or multitude; a throng.
- English Word Host Definition One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.
- English Word Host Definition To give entertainment to.
- English Word Host Definition To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.
- English Word Hostage Definition A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released.
- English Word Hostel Definition An inn.
- English Word Hostel Definition A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
- English Word Hosteler Definition The keeper of a hostel or inn.
- English Word Hosteler Definition A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge.
- English Word Hostelry Definition An inn; a lodging house.
- English Word Hostess Definition A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house.