hosteler

[ hos-tl-er ]

noun

1. a person who operates a hostel.
2. a person who stays at a hostel or goes hosteling.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hosteler¹

1250–1300; Middle English; hostel, -er ²; akin to Old French hostelier

Example Sentences

Whereupon, formally rejecting his own share of the mulct, he makes his award—that the land of the Barretts shall be equally divided on every side with the Burkes, and that MacWilliam shall have a seat in every Barrett's hall, a stall in every Barrett's stable, and needful grooming from every hosteler for every Burke who shall ride throughout Tirawley for ever.

From Project Gutenberg

"Sewerly," quoth this hosteler, "thou haddest the same woman that begged at our house to day, for the harmes she had by fyre: where is she?" quoth he.

From Project Gutenberg

"Yea," quoth this hosteler, and shewed him all the hole circumstaunce, what was both sayde and thought on him for the thing.

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"Hadest thou so?" quoth this hosteler; "nowe, by the masse, and I wyll haue some to, or I wyll lye in the duste or I come agayne."

From Project Gutenberg

"What is the cause?" quoth this hosteler; "your whystell, your whistel,"—speaking the same pyteouslye thre or foure tymes.

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