Affording harbour or shelter; given to hospitality.

Offering or affording welcome and entertainment to strangers; extending a generous hospitality to guests and visitors. Of persons.

= hospitable, adj. Of persons.

Given to hospitality, hospitable.

Hospitable.

Hospitable. (Sometimes representing Latin hospitālis: see hospital, adj. 2.)

That shows or extends hospitality; hospitable; that receives guests. Now rare.

Given to receiving strangers; hospitable.

= open house, adj.

Usually in form open-house. Characterized by, of the nature of, or for the purpose of general hospitality.

figurative. Ready to take in or receive; keeping open house, hospitable.