name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hostler
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
-
Received-Pronunciation: /ˈ(h)ɒs.lə/
-
US: /ˈ(h)ɑs.lɚ/
-
US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
-
US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
-
rhymes with (Received Pronunciation) -ɒslə
-
CMU ARPABET: HH AA1 S L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A worker employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: groom
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A railway worker employed to care for a locomotive or other large engine; especially, a yard jockey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, broadly
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: switcher, shunter
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stableman, stableboy, groom, ostler
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hired hand, hand, hired man
History
Etymology
From Middle English hostiler, from Middle French hostiler, from Old French hostelier, from Medieval Latin hostilārius, hospitālārius, from hospitāle "inn", from hospitālis "hospitable", from hospes "host, guest". Both hostler and its alternative form ostler originally meant simply "innkeeper", and acquired a specific association with horses in the second half of the 14th century. Doublet of hosteler and hotelier.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: سَائِس (sāʔis) — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Azerbaijani: mehtər — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Azerbaijani: atabaxan — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Azerbaijani: sayis — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Bulgarian: коняр (konjar) — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Czech: podkoní — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Czech: stájník — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Dutch: staljongen — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Finnish: tallirenki — person at an inn who looks after horses
- French: palefrenier — person at an inn who looks after horses
- German: Stalljunge — person at an inn who looks after horses
- German: Stallknecht — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Hebrew: סַיָּס (sayás) — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Northern Kurdish: seyîs — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Latin: agāsō — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Macedonian: ко́њушар (kónjušar) — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Macedonian: ко́њар (kónjar) — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Polish: stajenny — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Russian: ко́нюх — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Swedish: värdshusvärd — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Turkish: seyis — person at an inn who looks after horses
- Polish: parowozowy — person employed to care for a locomotive
- Russian: ремонтный слесарь (remontnyj slesarʹ) — person employed to care for a locomotive
- Swedish: underhållsarbetare — person employed to care for a locomotive
- Turkish: makinist — person employed to care for a locomotive