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English
Etymology
Either a variant of hostler, ostler (“groom”) remodelled after hostel or a new formation from hostel + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
hosteller (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, : Iohn Williams ], →OCLC:A Catalogue of learned Cambridge Hostellers
Translations
person who keeps a hostel
Middle English
Noun
hosteller
- Alternative form of hostiler