xenial

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Hospitable, especially to visiting strangers or foreigners. uncommon
    — Thus then society is not arranged in clans, but in tribes, united by the general sense of a common name, a common abode, a common history, a common religion, and a remote sense of a common tribal stock, without any sense of personal affinity in each individual case. Again, it is curious to observe that the xenial relation was not less vivacious than that of blood.
  2. Of the relation between a host and guest; friendly. uncommon

词形变化

more xenial comparative most xenial superlative

词汇关系

相关词
xenophobia

词源

From Ancient Greek ξενία (xenía, “hospitality; relations of hospitality between states or between a person and a state; the status of an alien, i.e., not a citizen”), equivalent to xenia + -al.
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