Guest-friendship
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Guest-friendship is a noun meaning Friendship shown to guests; hospitality.
Meaning
Friendship shown to guests; hospitality.
Example Sentences
Germanic cultural traditions of guest-friendship and hospitality, immortalised in the heroic literature of Beowulf (610ff) (Cat. 2003, 116, 397; von Uslar, 1934: Abb 2, 7-8).
The great significance of guest friendship and gift-exchange in the Celto-Germanic world bears witness to a deeply-founded desire to enter into positive relations with other groups.
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.
Word Forms
- guest-friendships
- guestfriendship
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include non-friend, exfriend, fraterniser, hospitaler, guestimator, fellowman.
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