hosteller
English
editAlternative forms
edit- hosteler (chiefly U.S.)
Etymology
editEither a variant of hostler, ostler (“groom”) remodelled after hostel or a new formation from hostel + -er.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithosteller (plural hostellers)
- One who keeps a hostel or inn.
- (obsolete) A student in a hostel, or small unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC:
- A Catalogue of learned Cambridge Hostellers
Translations
editperson who keeps a hostel
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Middle English
editNoun
edithosteller
- Alternative form of hostiler