Plural of hostess
regular plural
The plural of hostess is hostesses.
Forms of hostess
| Singular | hostess /ˈhoʊstɪs/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | hostesses |
| Countable | countable |
Hostesses in a sentence
- As all hostesses should, Cassie and Kim were putting serious thought into the party planning.2008, Rosy Thornton, Crossed Wires, Headline Publishing Group, published 2010, →ISBN. From the entry restaurateuse
- Among these cultured hostesses, a leading figure in the belle époque was the Comtesse de Greffulhe.1973, Raymond Rudorff, The Belle Époque: Paris in the Nineties, Saturday Review Press, page 240. From the entry belle époque
- I remember one of the hostesses whose Christmas parties I attended comparing me to a juvenile bloodhound.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X. From the entry encomium
- Even Sunday was not barren for Zuleika: modish hostesses gave her postprandially to their guests.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry postprandially
- Hostesses' sartorial practice manifests some of the attributes generally associated with the antifashion style of punk, hippie, and other subcultures.2009, Tiantian Zheng, Red lights: the lives of sex workers in postsocialist China. From the entry antifashion
Meaning of hostess
- noun A female host.
- noun A female innkeeper.
- noun Stewardess: a woman steward on an airplane.
Questions about the plural of hostess
- What is the plural of hostess?
- The plural of hostess is hostesses.
- Is hostess countable?
- Hostess is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hostess (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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