Crossword clues for amenity
amenity
- Hotel room list item
- First-class hotel offering
- Valued facility
- User-friendly feature
- Something nice
- Motel Wi-Fi, for one
- Inn pool, e.g
- Hotels.com information
- Hotel's pool or business center, for example
- Hotel spa, say
- Hotel pool, say
- Hotel pool, e.g
- Hotel bonus
- Hotel attraction
- Godiva truffle on a hotel pillow, for one
- Free Wi-Fi, e.g
- Convenient feature
- Convenience — any time (anag)
- Agreeable quality
- Chocolate on a hotel pillow, e.g.
- Convenience provider
- Extra
- Shower cap at a motel, maybe
- Concierge service, e.g.
- Free Wi-Fi, e.g.
- Pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions
- Convenience - any time
- Chocolate on a hotel pillow, e.g
- Resource a girl’s written about in French and Italian
- Useful thing bringing up branch stuck in a well
- Useful feature - any time
- Useful feature — any time (anag)
- Useful facility
- Hotel extra
- Public facility
- Creature comfort
- Hotel spa, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amenity \A*men"i*ty\, n.; pl. Amenities. [F. am['e]nit['e], L. amoenitas, fr. amoenus pleasant.] The quality of being pleasant or agreeable, whether in respect to situation, climate, manners, or disposition; pleasantness; civility; suavity; gentleness.
A sweetness and amenity of temper.
--Buckle.
This climate has not seduced by its amenities.
--W.
Howitt.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "quality of being pleasant or agreeable," from Old French amenite, from Latin amoenitatem (nominative amoenitas) "delightfulness, pleasantness," from amoenus "pleasant," perhaps related to amare "to love" (see Amy).
Wiktionary
n. 1 pleasantness. 2 A thing or circumstance that is welcome and makes life a little easier or more pleasant. 3 convenience. 4 (context cartography English) a unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library etc.
WordNet
n. pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions; "a well trained staff saw to the agreeableness of our accommodations"; "he discovered the amenities of reading at an early age" [syn: agreeableness] [ant: disagreeableness]
Wikipedia
Amenity is the first demo of the Dutch Symphonic metal band Delain. It was released in 2002. Martijn Westerholt, founder of Delain, doesn't regard this as the beginning of Delain: "I tried a few songs with local musicians, but it did not work, it did not really bring me what I was looking for."
In real estate and lodging, an amenity is something considered to benefit a property and thereby increase its value. Tangible amenities can include the number and nature of guest rooms and the provision of facilities such as elevators (lifts), wi-fi, restaurants, parks, communal areas, swimming pools, golf courses, health club facilities, party rooms, theater or media rooms, bike paths or garages, while intangible amenities can include aspects such as well-integrated public transport, pleasant views, nearby activities and a low crime rate.
Usage examples of "amenity".
She argued that amenities of State Compelled the effort, since they had honoured her By offering to come.
Nimisha sat on the slip bench, quite pleased with the effect the amenities of the Fiver was having on this survivor.
It is antipathetic to the gentleness of her nature, to the amenity, to the sweet timidity which are the greatest charms of the fair sex, besides, women never carry their learning beyond certain limits, and the tittle-tattle of blue-stockings can dazzle no one but fools.
The amenities for young people included a carousel which enchanted the Rowan: horses and bills and lionets and catarons and two amazing sea creatures that even the attendant could not identify.
She took full advantage of the amenities provided, brushing her teeth, smoothing moisturizer into her skin, blow-drying her hair.
Even amidst the rank productions of vice, they regerminate to a sort of imperfect vegetation, like some scattered hyacinths shooting up among the weeds of a ruined garden, that testify the former culture and amenity of the soil.
Caravaggio, the amenity of Albano, the golden glories of Titian, the frows of Rubens, and the waggeries of Jan Steen.
Very truly yours, Virginia Harris Man Station Postal Number 447 Manchester 22 July 1887 Miss Virginia Harris 79 Kelsea Way City Dear Miss Harris: The new lands are just that: new, with few amenities that Englishwomen expect.
He is not unacquainted with the conversational amenities of the cordial and interesting stranger, who, having had the misfortune of leaving his carpet-bag in the cars, or of having his pocket picked at the station, finds himself without the means of reaching that distant home where affluence waits for him with its luxurious welcome, but to whom for the moment the loan of some five and twenty dollars would be a convenience and a favor for which his heart would ache with gratitude during the brief interval between the loan and its repayment.
The discomfort of the drive back to Asmara would be greatly reduced by the superb upholstery and suspension designed by Messrs Rolls and Royce and would be more than adequietely offset by the quasi-civilized amenities of the town.
Evelyn had come here, to a place not known for its amenities, and made a home for herself and Gabriel, amid the bogs that were his life and his passion.
Easter court in Speyer, and heartily glad to have left behind the barbaric crudity, the squalor and monotony of the Danubian fortresses for the amenities of more civilized surroundings near the Rhine.
Melas Dorsa, no stations within four hundred kilometers of the lab, and Charles warned me there would be few amenities.
Social amenities could never be overlooked in the Leblanc household, not even in the midst of a deadly hunt.
I had one, might doubtless surpass every other country on this earth in its amenities and splendid appointments, not long ago I felt the urge to go traveling again, and I made a trip to the distant land of the Massagetae, where I had not been since the invention of gunpowder.