Words / B2

ho-SPIT-uh-bl/hɒˈspɪtəbl/

Hospitable means welcoming and generous to guests or strangers; also (of a climate or place) suitable to live in: a hospitable host; a hospitable climate. Welcoming is the everyday twin; hospital is a false friend. A hospitable welcome in the travel writing still needs a named host and place. Mix-up: hospital / hospitality (the industry). Do not write hospitable for a locked gate and a “keep out” sign.

Meaning

Welcoming and generous to guests or strangers; also (of a climate or place) suitable to live in.

Examples

• “A hospitable welcome in the travel writing still needs a named host and place.”
• “A less hospitable climate featured in the biome study, which is the “hard to live in” sense.”

Good to know

a hospitable host / welcome / climate. Everyday: welcoming. Noun: hospitality. Trap: hospital. Geography, RS, and travel writing. Welcoming to guests, or suitable to live in — specify.

Near in meaning

welcoming, sociable, generous

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