单词 | guestless |
释义 | guestlessadj. Having no guests. Sometimes as a translation of Greek ἄξενος, inhospitable. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > hospitality > guest > [adjective] > having no guests guestless1598 1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 38 More deafe..then are the wrack-rich Libique rocks, or the guestlesse ship-swalowing Sirtes, to the cries of dying marriners. 1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 266 The Black Sea has deservedly been named ‘the guestless’, the inhospitable. 1883 J. Payn Thicker than Water II. xix. 20 The long table stretched before the guestless chairman like a coffin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1598 |
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