Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
hostess
IPA transcription: [h'oʊstəs]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
hostess
Meaning:
a woman host
Synonyms:
hostess
Meaning:
a woman innkeeper
Synonyms:
stewardess, air_hostess, hostess
Meaning:
a woman steward on an airplane
Usage examples
"Do not be alarmed," said their hostess.
Perhaps he had really deserved his hostess' rebuke.
Three young men stood at the doorway looking about for their hostess.
Nevertheless, Louis said good-bye to his hostess with real, and, for him, rare effusion.
"It's getting almost too dark to see it," said his hostess, and suddenly pressed a button.
What will she say when she learns who was hostess to a common guardsman at the midnight hour?
Then calmly, automatically, and dispassionately he kissed the host, the hostess, and their nineteen children.
"I must go back to Webblehinton at once," Alethia informed her astonished hostess at lunch time; "I have had a telegram.
She wanted to be noticed but she dreaded to be patronized, and here again her hostess's gradations of tone were confusing.
"I wish you'd find something that was worth speaking about," said the hostess; "every one seems to have lost their tongues."