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Hostess vs Hostless - What's the difference?

hostess | hostless |

As a noun hostess

is a female host.

As an adjective hostless is

without a host.

hostess

Noun

(es)
  • A female host.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
  • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}
  • A female innkeeper.
  • Stewardess: a woman steward on an airplane.
  • A bar hostess or bargirl; a paid female companion offering conversation and in some cases sex.
  • Derived terms

    * hostess trolley

    hostless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without a host.
  • (obsolete) inhospitable
  • A hostless house. — Spenser.
    (Webster 1913)

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