n. A person who keeps a hostel or other place of accomodation, an innkeeper. A person in the hospitality industry.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The keeper of a hostel or inn.
n. A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. An innkeeper.
n. A student in a hostel at Oxford or Cambridge in England. See hostel, 2.
n. Eccles., formerly, the monk who entertained the guests in a monastery.
Word Usage
"And anon the hosteler arrayeth for him so fair and so well and so honestly, that there shall lack nothing; and it shall be done sooner and with less cost than an a man made it in his own house."