Meaning of xenial | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Hospitable, especially to visiting strangers or foreigners.
   uncommon
2. Of the relation between a host and guest; friendly.
   uncommon

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“House Democrats will always put American values over autocracy, benevolence over bigotry, […] working families over the well-connected, xenial over xenophobia, “Yes we can!” over “You can’t do it,” and zealous representation over zero-sum confrontation!”

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