hosteler

American  

[hos-tl-er] / ˈhɒs tl ər /

especially British, hosteller

noun

1. a person who operates a hostel.

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

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Usage

What is a hosteler? A hosteler is someone who runs a hostel, which is an inexpensive, communal lodging place for travelers, often young adults. A hosteler is also someone who stays in a hostel, as in To afford her tour of Europe, Ursula traveled as a hosteler. While someone staying at a hostel for just one night is still called a hosteler, the term usually refers to someone who frequently stays at hostels or is traveling a country, moving from hostel to hostel. Typically, hostelers are young adults, because hostels began as inexpensive housing for youth traveling by foot or bike, but hostels have since evolved to be for all ages in some countries. Example: A few of the hostelers said that the air conditioning keeps going out.

Etymology

Origin of hosteler

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

Example Sentences

The man who took home gold that he hardly needed was Neapolitan Hosteler Angelo Scalzone.

From Time Magazine Archive

T., ver. 452., the Hosteler says: "I make a vowe to the pecock, ther shall wake a foule mist."

From Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

Hosteler was originally the name for an inn-keeper; inns being in old English styled hostels, from the French signifying the same.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis