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hostler

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10
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10
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈ(h)ɒs.lə/
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/ˈ(h)ɒs.lə/ · /ˈ(h)ɑs.lɚ/ (US)

Definition of hostler

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A worker employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses.
    “As the chaise drove through Clavering, the hostler standing whistling under the archway of the Clavering Arms, winked the postilion ominously, as much as to say all was over.”
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noun

  1. A worker employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses.
    “As the chaise drove through Clavering, the hostler standing whistling under the archway of the Clavering Arms, winked the postilion ominously, as much as to say all was over.”
  2. (US, broadly)A railway worker employed to care for a locomotive or other large engine; especially, a yard jockey.

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

From Middle English hostiler, from Middle French hostiler, from Old French hostelier, from Medieval Latin hostilārius, hospitālārius, from hospitāle "inn", from hospitālis "hospitable", from hospes "host, guest". Both hostler and…

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From Middle English hostiler, from Middle French hostiler, from Old French hostelier, from Medieval Latin hostilārius, hospitālārius, from hospitāle "inn", from hospitālis "hospitable", from hospes "host, guest". Both hostler and its alternative form ostler originally meant simply "innkeeper", and acquired a specific association with horses in the second half of the 14th century. Doublet of hosteler and hotelier.

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