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

noun. A woman who manages an inn or hotel.

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

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

noun. A woman who is employed to dance with customers in a dance hall or nightclub.

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

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

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

noun. A female host.

noun. A female innkeeper.

noun. Stewardess: a woman steward on an airplane.

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

noun. a woman innkeeper

noun. a woman host

noun. 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."

hostess trolley  

boniface  flight attendant  host  innkeeper  steward  

actress  adviser  aunt  companion  correspondent  

landlady  

hostessed  hostessing