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hosteller

Pronunciation: /ˈhɒstələ/

The English word “hosteller” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. One who keeps a hostel or inn.
  2. A student in a hostel, or small unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.

Etymology

Either a variant of hostler, ostler (“groom”) remodelled after hostel or a new formation from hostel + -er. Piecewise doublet of hospitaller.

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