hosteller
nounUK /ˈhɒstələ/ · US /ˈhɑstəlɚ/
Etymology Either a variant of hostler, ostler (“groom”) remodelled after hostel or a new formation from hostel + -er. Piecewise doublet of hospitaller.
1
One who keeps a hostel or inn.
2
Obsolete A student in a hostel, or small unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
- A Catalogue of learned Cambridge Hostellers1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: … Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC: