According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
ENCOURAGING
encouraging
(adjective) giving courage or confidence or hope; “encouraging advances in medical research”
encouraging, supporting
(adjective) furnishing support and encouragement; “the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
encouraging (comparative more encouraging, superlative most encouraging)
giving courage, confidence or hope
supporting by giving encouragement
auspicious, or bringing good luck
Verb
encouraging
present participle of encourage
Noun
encouraging (plural encouragings)
encouragement
Source: Wiktionary
En*cour"a*ging, a.
Definition: Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.
– En*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
ENCOURAGE
En*cour"age (; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encouraged (; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. Encouraging.] Etym: [F. encourager; pref. en- (L. in) + courage courage. See Courage.]
Definition: To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage. David encouraged himself in the Lord. 1 Sam. xxx. 6.
Syn.
– To embolden; inspirit; animate; enhearten; hearten; incite; cheer; urge; impel; stimulate; instigate; countenance; comfort; promote; advance; forward; strengthen.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SENSE
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
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