hosteler
Americannoun
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a person who operates a hostel.
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a person who stays at a hostel or goes hosteling.
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
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During a party on the 18th-floor Starlight Roof, the hustling hosteler slipped behind the bar to mix a drink for New Mexico Governor Edwin Mechem.
From Time Magazine Archive
"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 The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by Awdeley, John
"I, by my trouth," quoth this hosteler, "and nothing greues me so much, neyther my beating, neither the losse of my money, as doth my euell and wreched lucke."
From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by Awdeley, John
"Nay, not yet," quoth this hosteler, "but I haue bene madly handlyd."
From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by Awdeley, John
"What is the cause?" quoth this hosteler; "your whystell, your whistel,"—speaking the same pyteouslye thre or foure tymes.
From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by Awdeley, John
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