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n. A woman who receives or entertains guests in a social or official capacity.

n. A woman who manages an inn or hotel.

n. A woman who is the emcee or interviewer on a radio or television program.

n. A woman who is employed to greet and assist patrons, as in a restaurant.

n. A woman who is employed to dance with customers in a dance hall or nightclub. See Usage Note at -ess.

n. A female host.

n. A female innkeeper.

n. Stewardess: a woman steward on an airplane.

n. a bar hostess or bargirl, a paid, female companion offering conversation and in some cases sex.

n. A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house.

n. A woman who entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper.

n. A female host; a woman who entertains guests; especially, a woman who keeps an inn.

n. a woman innkeeper

n. a woman host

n. a woman steward on an airplane

"She lived some time with Lady Hester Stanhope, a woman as fantastic and mentally strained as herself, on the slope of Mt. Lebanon, but finally quarrelled with her in regard to two white horses with red marks on their backs which suggested the idea of saddles, on which her titled hostess expected to ride into Jerusalem with the Lord."

hostessed    hostessing   

innkeeper    host    boniface    steward    flight attendant   

hostess trolley   

landlady   

mistress    housekeeper    patron    landlady    guest    aunt    matron    correspondent    adviser    dancer