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cohostess

cohostess noun: a female cohost.

Noun

cohostess (plural cohostesses)

  1. A female cohost.
    • Julia Meade assisted Ed as cohostess and chief product seller during and for a while after his Toast of the Town years.1971, Ronald W Lackmann, Remember television

Verb

cohostess (third-person singular simple present cohostesses, present participle cohostessing, simple past and past participle cohostessed)

  1. (rare) Of a woman: To act as a joint host.
    • Erna had dragooned a reluctant Frau Ostlinger into cohostessing a lavish party at the consulate for the children of all the more prominent German-American families in New York.1979, Robert H. Pilpel, To the honor of the fleet, page 241

Forms of cohostess

Noun
pluralcohostesses
Verb
third-person singular presentcohostesses
present participlecohostessing
past participlecohostessed
pastcohostessed

Origin of cohostess

From co- + hostess.

Questions about cohostess

What does cohostess mean?
Cohostess means a female cohost.
What part of speech is cohostess?
Cohostess can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of cohostess?
The plural of cohostess is cohostesses.

Words near cohostess in the dictionary

  1. cohos
  2. cohosh
  3. cohoshes
  4. cohost
  5. cohosted
  6. cohostess
  7. cohostessed
  8. cohostesses
  9. cohostessing
  10. cohosting
  11. cohosts

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