1A woman who receives or entertains guests.

1. 1.1US A woman employed at a restaurant to welcome and seat customers.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • He picked up a newspaper on his way inside and waited for the hostess to seat him.
   • A few minutes later we were still waiting for the hostess when two blue-haired women entered the restaurant behind us.
   • His girlfriend used to be the restaurant's hostess, but she now helps out during the day, arranging flowers and such.
   • She had a job as a hostess at Caleb's restaurant, La Cantina.
   • In fact one member of his staff was formerly a restaurant hostess and another an accountant who both eventually found themselves in the pastry kitchen.
   • Helen pushes Jerry into asking out Naomi, an attractive restaurant hostess, but is horrified to discover she has an obnoxious laugh.
   • And maybe, just maybe, I would get a call from that cute hostess from the Chinese place when I went last week and left my number scrawled on a napkin because Linx dared me to.
   • One summer I worked at a pancake house in Maine, and we had a tall, elegant older woman as hostess for the restaurant.
   • She regretfully declines, but he becomes obsessed with making her head hostess of his theme restaurant operation.
   • My sister had dreadlocks for about a year, while working as a hostess in a restaurant in the suburbs, and responses ran the entire gamut of hilarity.
   • The situation could have been avoided if the hostess had just seated us at a table for two (as we had requested), left our menus and water and walked away.
   • On the morning of June 5, 2005, a female graduate from a School of Finance at a Wuhan university began her first day of work as a hostess at a local restaurant.
   • We walked all together inside the restaurant and waited for the hostess to seat us.
   • Suddenly we must process the inevitable assumption by hostesses at restaurants and ticket takers at movie theaters that we are not together.
   • I walked into a restaurant and asked the hostess to dial 911.
   • She grew up in Sweden, but she would look more at home as hostess of the Athens Cafe in Astoria than in some bikini contest.
   • The hostess seated them at a small table by a brook running the full length of the dining area.
   • For instance, we encounter two delivery nurses, an elementary or preschool teacher, and a restaurant hostess, all of whom are on screen for a very short time.
   • If you're a waiter or hostess at a local restaurant with little or no ambition who's looking for an after-work hang-out, you'll fit right in here.
   • We were escorted to our seats by a breathy young hostess.
2. 1.2 A woman employed to entertain customers at a nightclub, bar, or dance hall.
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   • Western hostesses who work in Japanese nightclubs don't have sex with their clients - unless they want to, at which point they're free to accept money and gifts.
   • She was working as a hostess in a Tokyo nightclub when she disappeared in July 2000 after visiting him.
   • The hostesses sit with the customers, but she only sells the wine. She brings them their pink champagne.
   • Nightclub hostesses and air stewardesses were a mundane part of the mix.
   • Once inside Johnson immediately abandoned Michael while he flirted with a waitress-bar hostess he knew.
   • To get by, many cash-strapped mistresses go back to work as nightclub hostesses or juggle several patrons at one time to earn extra income.
   • In one lounge, a heavily made-up Chinese hostess with robustly arched eyebrows sits calmly at a table, playing solitaire as she puffs on a cigarette.
   • She thought of this as the tall blonde hostess led her to the booth in which Andrea, Ryan, and Andrea's current boyfriend Eduardo were sitting.
   • She began working as a nightclub hostess when she met and married a drunken dentist who committed suicide three years after her execution.
   • Japanese hostesses sit with the customers and provide conversation while continually filling the glasses.
   • He also enthusiastically encouraged her in her plan to become a nightclub hostess and she duly went to work in a clip joint off Piccadilly.
   • Hostessing is an integral part of Japanese culture, but pretty, blonde western hostesses were highly prized in any nightclub.
   • Still, there are sharply etched performances from Duncan Bell as the agonised Christopher, Hugh Ross as his hedonistic brother and Juliet Cadzow as a maternal nightclub hostess.
   • The hostess that escorted us to our table was very nice and polite.
   • Ruth Ellis, a night-club hostess, was the last woman to be executed in Britain in 1955.
   • After learning of her deception, husband Louis burns her lacy white lingerie, and she is next seen wearing the racy black costume of a nightclub hostess.
   • This tale of two nightclub hostesses (played by Sylvia Syms and June Ritchie) unfolds in a deracinated Britain where moral certainties are being eroded by affluence.
   • More than 46 percent of these women work as bar hostesses, followed by waitresses and factory workers.
   • He started paying to have sex with high-class call girls on a daily basis and once spent £1,300 on a diamond ring for a nightclub hostess he had known ‘for five minutes’.
   • A nightclub hostess has been charged with relieving a 56 year old American of his treasured valuables.

   Synonyms

   paid companion
3. 1.3 A stewardess on an aircraft, train, etc.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Of its 120 staff, AirCalin is left with just 10 hostesses and stewards to maintain operations.
   • The cabin crew had been specially selected for the flight and amongst these hostesses were nurses and linguists fluent in French, Spanish and Italian.
   • It's also the only train I know where hostesses mix piña coladas and rum punches on each car's roof.
   • The strike was called by the Union of Kanak and Exploited Workers and the commercial and navigation staff union which represents hostesses, stewards and commercial staff.
   • The flotilla usually comprises of 8/10 boats, one of which, referred to as the lead boat, carries a skipper, hostess and an engineer.
   • It was a gorgeous airbus, plenty of spare seats and most professional and courteous hostesses / stewards.
   • I ask one of the hostesses when I may expect to receive a drink and she cries out in irritation, ‘Back to your seat.’
   • And when we go on these holidays, we are no longer fed free on the flights, as our hostesses offer us refreshments from their ‘pay-bar’.
   • The daylong flight was tolerable in business class, with legroom and hostesses to fuss over us.
   • Two hostesses or stewardesses in matching outfits enter.
   • To suit the occasion, the stewards and hostesses sported the Lebanese look, and Arabic music and fragrance completed the Arabic experience.
   • The ride up was mainly uneventful, it was a three-hour trip and the hostess of the train car kept us entertained with games and trivia about the Grand Canyon.
   • Before they got on, the hostess disinfected his seat and the floor around it.

   Synonyms

   server, waitress, stewardess, steward, attendant
4. 1.4 A woman who introduces a television or radio program.
   a game-show hostess

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Ros Davidson examines the mega-clout wielded by the chat-show hostess from humble Mississippi.
   • After her A Levels, Geri left and became a hairdresser, keep fit instructor, dancer, waitress, sales assistant, nude model, game show hostess and finally Spice Girl.
   • You worked together in ‘Dogville’ and the film ‘Birth’ and the legend label was used by a British morning show hostess.
   • Li, a self-described feng shui expert, visited Taiwan in 1992 and married a former television hostess.
   • Of those polled, 19.1 percent picked Chang as their dream boss, followed by popular television hostess Chang Hsiao-yen at 18.2 percent.
   • The end result is an unsatisfying film in which poverty, the exploitation of children and other social problems are just backdrops for a rather average tale about a street hustler and a television hostess.
   • Like a lot of such women, she sounds as if she is auditioning for a job as a game show hostess.
   • However, she started down a different career path after being chosen as the hostess for a radio programme for university students.
   • Of the two who were named, one, a British television hostess, had told her story to Premiere magazine years ago, and it has been widely known and largely ignored.
   • The other day, the hostess of a popular talk show on a Tamil channel announced on screen that she was sporting a ‘malivu vilai’ saree.
   • She was the hostess of a daily talk show ‘Play Around With Jenny’ which I always watch.
   • This meant that local television stations could use their own hostesses in lieu of national hosts if they chose.
   • The Guard stands ready to serve and couldn't care less what some blonde under-fed bubble-headed morning show hostess has to say about their situation.
   • Just over three weeks earlier she landed the job as hostess on BBC Television's ‘It's a Knockout’.
   • Local people in trouble like to turn to Ye Sha, the hostess of a night call-in talk programme called ‘Sunrise companion.’
   • After the broadcast, radio hostesses give children goodie bags to take home, physical reminders to reinforce their message long after the show.
   • As callers are using the anonymity of radio, they can bare their souls to the hostess and even to the whole city across the air waves.
   • Star Jones, a US television hostess, even had an ‘official airline’ for her much-trailed wedding last November.
   • For a while she became an underwear model for Lejaby, but her big break came when she landed the job as hostess in the TV gameshow Wheel of Fortune.
   • What if he was the person in the pictures and the female was a television program hostess, but they were just having a liaison with no job favors involved?