Definitions

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  • noun One who keeps a hostel or inn.
  • noun obsolete A student in a hostel, or small unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a traveler who lodges in hostels
  • noun an owner or manager of hotels

Etymologies

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hostel +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Any hosteller, who broke ranks, immediately was brought back into line.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • It was enjoined that the hosteller, or brother in charge of the hospitium, should have "facility of expression, elegant manners, and a respectable bringing up; and if he have no substance to bestow he may at any rate exhibit a cheerful countenance and agreeable conversation, for friends are multiplied by agreeable words."

    English Villages 1892

  • Harman dined with us, and great sport to hear him tell how Will Joyce grows rich by the custom of the City coming to his end of the towne, and how he rants over his brother and sister for their keeping an Inne, and goes thither and tears like a prince, calling him hosteller and his sister hostess.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Harman dined with us, and great sport to hear him tell how Will Joyce grows rich by the custom of the City coming to his end of the towne, and how he rants over his brother and sister for their keeping an Inne, and goes thither and tears like a prince, calling him hosteller and his sister hostess.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • As a hosteller, r we allowed to keep bikes in IIT D premises???

    unknown title 2009

  • Alan Reade, a civil engineer who lives in Claverley, was a keen youth hosteller and recalls how, as a 12-year-old in August 1953, he and his brother cycled from home to Criccieth for their usual family summer holiday.

    Shropshire Star 2009

  • As she is a hosteller, she collects details from her friends of other discipline too.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2009

  • The Class VII student was a hosteller and a native of Kunepally village in Renjal mandal.

    AndhraCafe.com 2008

  • Up, but very good friends with her before I rose, and so to the office, where we sat all the forenoon, and then home to dinner, where Harman dined with us, and great sport to hear him tell how Will Joyce grows rich by the custom of the City coming to his end of the towne, and how he rants over his brother and sister for their keeping an Inne, and goes thither and tears like a prince, calling him hosteller and his sister hostess.

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, December 1666 Pepys, Samuel 1666

  • his brother and sister for their keeping an Inne, and goes thither and tears like a prince, calling him hosteller and his sister hostess.

    Pepys' Diary 2009

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