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hosteller

UK/ˈhɒstələ/US/ˈhɑstəlɚ/

hosteller noun: one who keeps a hostel or inn.

Noun

hosteller (plural hostellers)

  1. One who keeps a hostel or inn.
  2. (obsolete) A student in a hostel, or small unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
    • A Catalogue of learned Cambridge Hostellers1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC

Forms of hosteller

pluralhostellers
alternative UShosteler

Origin of hosteller

Either a variant of hostler, ostler (“groom”) remodelled after hostel or a new formation from hostel + -er. Piecewise doublet of hospitaller.

Questions about hosteller

What does hosteller mean?
Hosteller means one who keeps a hostel or inn.
What part of speech is hosteller?
Hosteller is a noun.
How do you pronounce hosteller?
Hosteller is pronounced /ˈhɒstələ/ (UK).
What is the plural of hosteller?
The plural of hosteller is hostellers.

Words near hosteller in the dictionary

  1. hostelers
  2. hosteling
  3. hostelite
  4. hostelites
  5. hostelled
  6. hosteller
  7. hostellers
  8. hostelling
  9. hostelrie
  10. hostelries
  11. hostelry

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