different between hostel vs hoster

English

Etymology

From Middle English hostel, from Old French hostel, ostel, from Late Latin hospitale (“hospice”), from Classical Latin hospitalis (“hospitable”) itself from hospes (“host”) + -alis (“-al”). Doublet of hotel and hospital. Obsolete from the 16th to 18th centuries, until it was revived by Walter Scott.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?st?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h?st?l/
• Homophone: hostile (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -?st?l

Noun

hostel (plural hostels)

1. A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel

2. (not US) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food
3. (obsolete) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lodging place

Derived terms

• hosteler, hosteller
• hostelry
• youth hostel

Related terms

• host
• hostler
• hotel

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (hosuteru)
• ? Korean: ??? (hoseutel)

Translations

See also

• hospice

Verb

hostel (third-person singular simple present hostels, present participle hosteling or hostelling, simple past and past participle hosteled or hostelled)

1. to stay in a hostel as part of a travel

Anagrams

• Holtes, Lhotse, Tholes, helots, hotels, hôtels, loseth, shotel, tholes

Czech

Noun

hostel m

1. hostel

Declension

Related terms

• host m

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French hostel, ostel, from Latin hospit?lis, hospit?le. Doublet of hospital.

Alternative forms

• osteyl, hostele, ostel, hostell, hostelle, ostell, hostil

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(h)?s?t??l/, /(h)?s?t?i?l/, /?(h)?st?l/

Noun

hostel (plural hosteles)

1. A hostel or guesthouse; accomodation.
2. Fun or diversion; entertaining activities.
3. A dwelling, dormitory or home; housing, lodging.
4. A house or place of residence; the household.
5. A owner or manager of a hostel.

Related terms

• hostellen
• hostelrye
• hostiler

Descendants

• English: hostel
• Scots: hostel

References

• “host??l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-07.

Etymology 2

From Old French osteler, hosteler.

Verb

hostel

1. Alternative form of hostellen

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French ostel

Noun

hostel m (plural hostels)

1. shelter; living quarters; place to stay
2. hotel; hostel; inn (establishment offering rooms for hire)

Derived terms

• maistre d'hostel

Descendants

• French: hôtel (see there for further descendants)

Old French

Noun

hostel m (oblique plural hosteaus or hosteax or hostiaus or hostiax or hostels, nominative singular hosteaus or hosteax or hostiaus or hostiax or hostels, nominative plural hostel)

1. Alternative form of ostel

Polish

Noun

hostel m inan

1. hostel

Declension

Spanish

Noun

hostel m (plural hosteles)

1. hostel

English

Etymology

host +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??st?(?)

Noun

hoster (plural hosters)

1. (computing, Internet, neologism) A provider of online hosting, especially web hosting.

   Make sure your hoster provides fast FTP access to your files.

   • 2004, Reuters news item at CNet News, 25 September 2004:

     Microsoft sues Web hoster over spam

Synonyms

• hosting company
• web host, webhost

Derived terms

• web hoster, webhoster

Translations

Anagrams

• Rothes, Stoehr, Tosher, hetros, others, re-shot, rehost, reshot, short e, shorte, shoter, throes, tosher

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hoster m

1. indefinite plural of hoste

Verb

hoster

1. present of hoste

Old French

Etymology

See oster. The h is unetymological (no h in the original Latin obst?).

Verb

hoster

1. Alternative form of oster

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-sts, *-stt are modified to z, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.