Meaning of guest-friendship | Babel Free

Definitions

Friendship shown to guests; hospitality.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“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.”

“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).”

“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.”

CEFR level