All 7 Uses of
hospitable
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- Just within the entrance, however, stood two serving-men, pointing some of the guests to the neighborhood of the kitchen and ushering others into the statelier rooms,—hospitable alike to all, but still with a scrutinizing regard to the high or low degree of each.†
Chpt 1hospitable = welcoming
- The maiden lady herself, sternly inhospitable in her first purposes, soon began to feel that the door ought to be shoved back, and the rusty key be turned in the reluctant lock.†
Chpt 4inhospitable = unwelcomingstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inhospitable means not and reverses the meaning of hospitable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- She appeared to have no preliminary design, but gave a touch here and another there; brought some articles of furniture to light and dragged others into the shadow; looped up or let down a window-curtain; and, in the course of half an hour, had fully succeeded in throwing a kindly and hospitable smile over the apartment.†
Chpt 5hospitable = welcoming
- These words, however, had not the inhospitable bluntness with which they may strike the reader; for the two relatives, in a talk before bedtime, had arrived at a certain degree of mutual understanding.†
Chpt 5inhospitable = unwelcomingstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inhospitable means not and reverses the meaning of hospitable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- With this measured, but not exactly cold assurance of a hospitable purpose, Hepzibah kissed her cheek.†
Chpt 5 *hospitable = welcoming
- On hearing these so hospitable offers, and such generous recognition of the claims of kindred, Phoebe felt very much in the mood of running up to Judge Pyncheon, and giving him, of her own accord, the kiss from which she had so recently shrunk away.†
Chpt 8
- In other respects, it was a substantial, jolly-looking mansion, and seemed fit to be the residence of a patriarch, who might establish his own headquarters in the front gable and assign one of the remainder to each of his six children, while the great chimney in the centre should symbolize the old fellow's hospitable heart, which kept them all warm, and made a great whole of the seven smaller ones.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
welcoming or supportive
in various senses, including:
- inclined to treat guests well -- as in "She is good-natured and hospitable."
- favorable to life and growth -- as in "The climate is hospitable to roses."
- open to new ideas or change -- as in "The organization is hospitable to new ideas."