xenial

comparative more xenial · superlative most xenial

1. uncommonHospitable, especially to visiting strangers or foreigners.

   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!

   2023 January 7, Hakeem Jeffries, A–Z speech

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   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.

   1858, W. E. Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, volume 2, Oxford University Press, pages 459–460

2. uncommonOf the relation between a host and guest; friendly.