Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who receives or entertains guests in a social or official capacity.
- noun A woman who manages an inn or hotel.
- noun A woman who is the emcee or interviewer on a radio or television program.
- noun A woman who is employed to greet and assist patrons, as in a restaurant.
- noun A woman who is employed to dance with customers in a dance hall or nightclub.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female host; a woman who entertains guests; especially, a woman who keeps an inn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house.
- noun A woman who entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
female host . - noun A
female innkeeper . - noun
Stewardess : a womansteward on anairplane . - noun a bar hostess or
bargirl , a paid, female companion offering conversation and in some cases sex.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman innkeeper
- noun a woman host
- noun a woman steward on an airplane
Etymologies
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Examples
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She lived some time with Lady Hester Stanhope, a woman as fantastic and mentally strained as herself, on the slope of Mt. Lebanon, but finally quarrelled with her in regard to two white horses with red marks on their backs which suggested the idea of saddles, on which her titled hostess expected to ride into Jerusalem with the Lord.
Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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She lived some time with Lady Hester Stanhope, a woman as fantastic and mentally strained as herself, on the slope of Mt. Lebanon, but finally quarrelled with her in regard to two white horses with red marks on their backs which suggested the idea of saddles, on which her titled hostess expected to ride into Jerusalem with the Lord.
Snow Bound and Others, from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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She lived some time with Lady Hester Stanhope, a woman as fantastic and mentally strained as herself, on the slope of Mt. Lebanon, but finally quarrelled with her in regard to two white horses with red marks on their backs which suggested the idea of saddles, on which her titled hostess expected to ride into Jerusalem with the Lord.
The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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[Page 183] before engaged lodgings: they are not so pleasantly situated as those we occupied at Ilfracombe; but they are comfortable; and our hostess is a good woman, who takes pains to please us.
Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor 1832
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Joshua, who has flown into a fit at my use of the word hostess for Melanie, who owns this space and welcomes guests onto it, "hostess".
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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For workshops between $250 and $399, hostesses will earn an EXTRA $20 in hostess free merchandise (on top of the regular hostess dollars and exclusive stamp sets).
Download the Last Chance List jpitta 2009
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For workshops $400 and over, hostesses will earn an additional $40 in hostess free merchandise!
Download the Last Chance List jpitta 2009
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He settles for day jobs at the building sites of Tokyo, subsists on freeze-dried noodles and squanders his pay in hostess bars.
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Real question for air hostess is "People do have right to ask about birth certificate but do you belive that the issue is already resolved in court?" paula
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My entire career as a talk show hostess is ruined because of this!
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