HOSPITABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hospitably mean? 

• HOSPITABLY (adverb)
  The adverb HOSPITABLY has 1 sense:

1. in a hospitable manner

  Familiarity information: HOSPITABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOSPITABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a hospitable manner

Context example:

she was received hospitably by her new family

Antonym:

inhospitably (in an inhospitable manner)

Pertainym:

hospitable (disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and generosity)

 Context examples 

I soon fell into some acquaintance, and was very hospitably received.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There was no hurry, he said; a week hence would do; and his mother hospitably said the same.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The front door usually stood hospitably open.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Fanny's last meal in her father's house was in character with her first: she was dismissed from it as hospitably as she had been welcomed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He had carried it off as a good joke with Scott, excused his little wife as well as he could, and played the host so hospitably that his friend enjoyed the impromptu dinner, and promised to come again, but John was angry, though he did not show it, he felt that Meg had deserted him in his hour of need.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)