Definition of "hosteller" []

• One who keeps a hostel or inn. (noun)
• A student in a hostel, or small unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. (noun)

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• "Any hosteller, who broke ranks, immediately was brought back into line."
• "It was enjoined that the hosteller, or brother in charge of the hospitium, should have "facility of expression, elegant manners, and a respectable bringing up; and if he have no substance to bestow he may at any rate exhibit a cheerful countenance and agreeable conversation, for friends are multiplied by agreeable words.""
• "Harman dined with us, and great sport to hear him tell how Will Joyce grows rich by the custom of the City coming to his end of the towne, and how he rants over his brother and sister for their keeping an Inne, and goes thither and tears like a prince, calling him hosteller and his sister hostess."