Hospitality vs Guestfriendship - What's the difference?
hospitality | guestfriendship |
The act or service of welcoming, receiving, hosting, or entertaining guests
(business) The business of providing catering, lodging and entertainment service.
Friendship]] shown to [[guest, guests; hospitality.
*1993 , Ralph J. Hexter, Robert Fitzgerald, A guide to the Odyssey :
*2005 , Margo Kitts, Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society :
*2011 , Daniela Carpi, Bioethics and Biolaw through Literature - Page 354 :
*2012 , Robert A. Williams, Jr., Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization :
As nouns the difference between hospitality and guestfriendship
is that hospitality is the act or service of welcoming, receiving, hosting, or entertaining guests while guestfriendship is friendship]] shown to [[guest|guests; hospitality.hospitality
English
(wikipedia hospitality)Noun
- Please thank our hosts for their hospitality during the week that we stayed.
Synonyms
* (l) * (l)External links
* *guestfriendship
English
Alternative forms
*Noun
(en-noun)- Penélopê formally extends her personal hospitality to the stranger, thereby creating that special relationship of guestfriendship which involves each party in making the other's interests his or her own.
- We saw this in the renewed pledge of guestfriendship between Diomedes and Glaukos, the one's father having been a xeinos philos to the other's.
- Prince Tarquinius entered the house as a guest, but since he did not follow the rules of guestfriendship , his presence marks a violent entry even before he has violated the hostess.
- Professor Victor Alonso stresses the role of xenia'' as an overarching, transcending form of universally binding law in ancient Greece. He writes that the Greeks employed the institution of ''xenia , or guest-friendship , as a fundamental instrument and precept of international law.
